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What is indirect inode addressing?

what is indirect inode addressing?

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Inode addressing is mainly used for unix file system. Every file contains an index node or inode which stores the informstion of the file like file permissions,ownerships etc.The contents of a files are stored in a collection of data blocks. The pointer inode which links the data blocks.

There are only fifteen pointers in inode,and the first twelve for direct addressing. Other three are used for indirect addressing.

1.single indirect pointer: the total file size that can be accessed through this block is 4 MB.

2.Double indirect pointer: it have other block addresses as content.That is addressed of the actual data blocks.

3. Triple indirect pointer: This indirect block will contain a set of double indirect block numbers. Each double indirect block will have a set of single indirect block numbers and each indirect block will have a set of direct data block numbers.

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