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Filesystem Recovery Course - VMFS Recovery Test

How inodes, indirect blocks table and small file repository are stored?

as special metadata structures
as regular files in the root filesystem directory

When was the first release of VMFS filesystem?

2004
2000
2002
2006

VMFS stands for

virtual machine file structure
volume manager file system
virtual machine file storage
virtual machine file system

Where are small clusters stored?

inside a special file
arbitrarily on the volume
in inodes

Carving doesn’t work well on a VMFS volume

false
true

Where does VMFS store files smaller than 1 KB?

inside the corresponding inodes
in indirect blocks table
in a dedicated repository

What is the size of VMFS inode?

1 KB
8 KB
2 KB

What is the recommended data recovery approach for a multi-disk VMFS volume?

do filesystem recovery on each disk separately
first reassemble the volume from extents and then do filesystem recovery
do RAID0 recovery first and then do filesystem recovery

What is common between VMFS and EXT?

both filesystems use inodes
both filesystems use two different cluster sizes
both filesystems use a dedicated repository for small files

What metadata is stored in an inode?

date and time of file creation, the file size, and the file type
date and time of file creation, the file name, and the file type
date and time of file creation, the file size, and file name

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