[TUHS] Early non-Unix filesystems?
John Cowan
cowan at mercury.ccil.org
Mon Mar 21 22:06:34 AEST 2016
Tony Finch scripsit:
> I was slightly startled by the coolness of the idea when I found out that
> nvi uses Berkeley DB as its storage layer; its recno access method
> makes a text file look like a random-access array of strings.
Classical sequential files, however, were simply random-access files
such that seeking to line n was just a matter of seeking to byte
n * MAXCHARSLINE. The last time I actually used such a thing was
on an early Tandem system when I was implementing the Software Tools.
Editable source used a different format, so I set things up so that
the Tools could either read source format or sequential format and
then wrote sequential format.
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