Simplest (practical) file system?

From: Bob Shannon <bshannon_at_tiac.net>
Date: Sun Jul 27 14:31:00 2003

Just how much code does this take, and where can I find source?

Patrick Rigney wrote:

>Bob,
>
>In "from scratch" projects I've done, I've always just implemented the
>MS/PC-DOS FAT filesystem. It's simple, and it has the advantage of being
>readable and writable from any regular desktop PC directly. I've also done
>several variants of *nix filesystems, which are only slightly more complex,
>but perform much better at the expense of a bit of RAM. Naturally, if you
>stick to the standards, you'll have no trouble reading, writing (and
>verifying the correctness of) these volumes from Linux or FreeBSD. I prefer
>the former for floppies and other small-size removables, that latter for
>hard disks.
>
>Patrick
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: cctalk-admin_at_classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-admin_at_classiccmp.org]On
>>Behalf Of Bob Shannon
>>Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 10:14 AM
>>To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
>>Subject: Simplest (practical) file system?
>>
>>
>>What is the simplest usable disk file system to implement?
>>
>>More specifically, if your going to write a disk file system from
>>scratch, what would be the easiest way to implement
>>some basic file system functionality?
>>
>>How did some of the very early DOS systems allocate disk space in the
>>days before FAT tables, etc?
>>
>>Just how simply can this be done?
Received on Sun Jul 27 2003 - 14:31:00 BST