ruud.baltissen_at_abp.nl
Date: 2007-08-29 08:48:14
Hallo André,
> That's exactly the idea behind the "REL"ative files. .....
But is it an elegant solution? IMHO, no. In a previous version of CBM-HD (CBM drive simulator) I supported REL files but didn't use side-sectors: I just calculated which sector in-a-row I had to have and went to it by going through all previous sectors first. And even then my simulator was faster then a real 4040 drive (tested with 200 blocks). The Commodore test programs and Superbase didn't complain either. Just for compatibility reasons I added support for the side-sectors as well.
Just because of this 4-byte pointer I will use in my new FS, it won't be compatible with any existing FS used by Commodore. So IMHO it won't hurt anyone if I dropped the support for side-sectors. As the directory entries won't be compatible anymore as well, it won't hurt to add some info that a file is known as to be unfragmented. I don't know the advantage of this for a SEQ, PRG or USR file, but for a REL this means that, knowing the LBA pointer of the first sector, the pointer to the needed sector can be calculated without the need to load any other sector.
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