Re: Toll Booth and junk (was Re(fcc): TI-H: Radio/In...)


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Re: Toll Booth and junk (was Re(fcc): TI-H: Radio/In...)




Either way, it doesn't really matter. Not having a list would be a baaad
idear in my mind, at least a list of pointers :> Because you'd have to check
each sector of the drive when doing a global file search...sounds slow to
me, what about you?

-- Jon Olson

-----Original Message-----
From: Grant Stockly <gussie@alaska.net>
To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org <ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Friday, November 06, 1998 12:13 AM
Subject: Re: Toll Booth and junk (was Re(fcc): TI-H: Radio/In...)


>
>>You do have a list of files somewhere, there is an allocation table at the
>>end/beginning of the drive (opposite of where the data starts). The file
>>system i'm proposing is really VERY, VERY simple to understand, and
>>implement, and doesn't require defragging: ever.
>
>You don't HAVE to have a list.  :)
>
>My FS stacks the list of pointers from the end of the drive.  I guess I
>could just start the stack at the front of the drive and start the files
>from the end...  :)
>
>Grant
>


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