superblock

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A very large block of buildings
Any block larger than the typical city block of approximately 300 ft x 600 ft
In Linux, partitions are discussed in terms of blocks A block is 512 bytes The superblock is the first 512 bytes of a partition
A block that contains control information for a filesystem The superblock contains housekeeping information, such as the number of inodes in the filesystem and free list information
An fs-specific data structure, stored on disk, that holds various bits of information about the fs on the disk, such as a pointer to the free blocks structure, the number of free inodes, etc In the code, the inode manipulation routines are entered in super_operations vector of function pointers Often abbreviated to sb
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