[Info-vax] Request description of UFS for VMS person

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <gsms0d$dn$3 at naig.caltech.edu>,
	glen herrmannsfeldt <gah at ugcs.caltech.edu> writes:
> Bill Gunshannon <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu> wrote:
> (snip)
>  
>> Are you saying that the blocks used by a file that has been deleted are
>> not going to be reused?  Assuming a decent file allocation scheme I would
>> expect the freed blocks to be in locations that were likely to be considered
>> prime real estate for the next file that needed space.
> 
> The MS_DOS allocation method seems to be such that the most
> recently allocated blocks are the last to be reused, assuming
> no reboot in the mean time.  As well as I understand it, there
> is a pointer to the last allocated blocks that is incremented
> until it gets to the end, and then starts over from the beginning.

And why does an alocation scheme as bad as this not surprise me?
No wonder we spent so much time de-fraging MSDOS.  :-)

Somebody tell me again what wonderful IT geniuses Gates and Allen were.

bill

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