Bob,
Here's a public domain implementation...
http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~pje/rdcf2.txt
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 12:29 PM
> To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: Simplest (practical) file system?
>
>
> 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 - 16:21:00 BST