Discussion
Block caches or buffer caches are used
Answer: A
Correct answer: to improve disk performance
A block or buffer cache keeps recently used disk blocks in main memory, so a repeated read is answered without touching the disk and writes can be gathered and deferred. Since a memory access is several orders of magnitude faster than a disk access, this is where most of the gain in file system performance comes from.
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