Simplest (practical) file system?

From: Bob Shannon <bshannon_at_tiac.net>
Date: Sun Jul 27 18:06:00 2003

Vintage Computer Festival wrote:

>On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, Bob Shannon wrote:
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>>The trick then becomes how to efficiently 'squeeze' the disk drive to
>>recover space from deleted files?
>>
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>This is your trade off. You can spend the programming time doing a more
>proper filesystem ;)
>
It all comes down to available memory.

We are talking about CPU's with a logical address space of 32K words.
 Much of that is already used, so I need
something very small.

And how 'correct' would it be to have a modern file system running on an
HP2116 anyway? It may be far from
practical.
Received on Sun Jul 27 2003 - 18:06:00 BST