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- From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
- Newsgroups: comp.software-eng,comp.arch.storage,comp.unix.internals
- Subject: Re: Extent-based Filesystems (was: Large Application data sets )
- Message-ID: <33682@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 02:15:38 GMT
- References: <1992Jul13.090423.20408@metapro.DIALix.oz.au <33120@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1992Jul21.113652.4898@metapro.DIALix.oz.au> <1992Jul25.064903.21099@e2big.mko.dec.com>
- Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
- Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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- pettengill@cvg.enet.dec.com () writes:
- >Perhaps I've been using RSX and VMS for too long, so that they have pushed
- >memories of other file systems into the dark alleys. I can only think of
- >two file systems that I know DON'T use extents: DOS-11 and AmigaDOS.
- >DOS-11 and the older AmigaDOS file system version stored 500+ bytes of
- >data in a block and the remainder of the block included the necessary
- >information to find the next block. I was really surprised to find that
- >AmigaDOS, which was and is a very modern OS, used such a scheme.
-
- That was the "Old Filesystem" (or "Slow Filesystem"), which was
- replaced about 4 years ago by the "Fast Filesystem". OFS is still an option,
- used almost entirely for floppies. Note that OFS did not actually use that
- information to find the next block; normally the fileheader and extension
- blocks hold the lists of blocks. The extra info in the block was for
- recovery.
-
- OFS (and FFS) are not extent-based, but the next-block pointer has
- nothing to do with that. They are not extent-based because the extension
- blocks hold lists of blocks, instead of starting block and length.
-
- OFS was a hold-over from Tripos, which AmigaDOS is a decendant of.
-
- --
- "Rev on the redline, you're on your own; seems like a lifetime, but soon it's
- gone..." Foreigner
- -
- Randell Jesup, Jack-of-quite-a-few-trades, Commodore Engineering.
- {uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!jesup, jesup@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com BIX: rjesup
- Disclaimer: Nothing I say is anything other than my personal opinion.
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