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 April 20th, 2026 Journal Entry Week 7      This week in class we covered file systems and how data is organized in them and how they are accessed on a disk. The main topics were inodes and file metadata, block allocation, directory structures, links, and how file systems manage storage through bitmaps and indexing. We also did a few problems on calculating inode locations and how to understand how data is physically laid out on a disk.      In my own words inodes are basically the identify of a file. Block allocation is how a file system decides where it will store the pieces of a file on the disk. Directory structures are what maps filenames to inodes. Hard links point to the same inode, symbolic links point to a path. Bitmap system tracks which inode and clock are free or being used.       The hardest topic for me was inode calculations. I had a heck of a time when making one small mistake and throwing off the rest of the problem...