Simplest (practical) file system?

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: Mon Jul 28 21:31:00 2003

At 07:49 PM 7/28/03 -0400, Bob wrote:
>> The biggest problem that I see here is that Bob wants to be able to use
>> this OS on systems that have as little as 16k words but still use LARGE
>> modern drives. I'm not sure that's practicle without a lot of wasting a lot
>> of drive space. But I frankly don't think wastage is a problem. There's
>> simply not a lot of software for this OS and I don't think we'd ever use
>> more than a tiny fraction of the drive. Therefore my vote ould be for
>> program size, speed and drive space effientcy in that order.
>
> So what about the archiving file system I outlined? Files are stored
>contiguously, and if you want to append to a file, it's copied to the end of
>the used space, given a new time stamp, and it goes from there?

    That sounds fine to me.

    Joe
Received on Mon Jul 28 2003 - 21:31:00 BST

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