Consider a disk with following characteristics; Block size 512 bytes, number of blocks per track 25 and number of tracks per surface 500. Also assume that there is a table EMPLOYEE with 10000 fixed length records and each record is of size 101 bytes. Which of the following is the correct bfr (blocking factor) and number of blocks combination if we assume an unspanned organization?
A. 5 and 2000
B. 5 and 1000
C. 6 and 2000
D. 6 and 1000
Answer:A
Consider a disk with following characteristics; Block size 512 bytes, number of blocks per track 25 and number of tracks per surface 500. Also assume that there is a table EMPLOYEE with 10000 fixed length records and each record is of size 101 bytes. Which of the following is the correct bfr (blocking factor) and number of blocks combination if we assume an unspanned organization?
A. 5 and 2000 B. 5 and 1000 C. 6 and 2000 D. 6 and 1000