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There seems to be a contradiction in the page. First, a bullet says:
"Twelve pointers that directly point to blocks of the file's data (direct pointers)"
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Also can you please clarify why its the fourth pointer instead of the third pointer? Because 120/8=15 pointers so 1 to 12 will be direct pointers and the 13th pointer would point to the first indirect block which would have the 13th, 14th and 15th pointers. But the reason why I think you said it's the fourth is because I'm assuming that the pointers start at 0 at the 0kB memory address (making a total of 16 pointers) so in that case the fourth pointer would be correct. If this is so, can this be stated explicitly in on the page? [[User:Jmarbas|Jmarbas]] ([[User talk:Jmarbas|talk]]) 06:57, 13 June 2016 (UTC)
== "Many" and "most" qualifiers, without examples ==
The article currently claims that the 15-pointer structure is used by "many related file systems", and also claims that "most modern file systems use fifteen pointers." But the article offers only [[ext3]] as the solitary example of a file system using 15 pointers. Are there other such systems? If so, which? And for contrast, what are some examples of file systems that *don't* use the specific layout described in this article? (I would hope the "most modern file systems" bucket includes things like ZFS and btrfs but excludes things like FAT32? Or... what?) --[[User:Quuxplusone|Quuxplusone]] ([[User talk:Quuxplusone|talk]]) 23:16, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
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