The s5 filesystem type

The operating system views an s5 filesystem as an arrangement of addressable blocks of disk space that belong to one of four categories:

• block 0 (the boot block)

• block 1 (the superblock)

• a variable number of blocks that make up the inode list

• a variable number of storage blocks, most containing data, some containing the free list and indirect addresses

This layout is illustrated in the next figure.

The s5 filesystem