[TUHS] 'Huge' file support removed from PWB1

arnold at skeeve.com arnold at skeeve.com
Fri Mar 10 03:35:43 AEST 2023


"Ron Natalie" <ron at ronnatalie.com> wrote:

> Version 7 came around with a different filesystem layout.    File sizes 
> were 32 bits, and the disk block indexes were 24 bits.   The latter was 
> stored as a series of bytes on the disk but expanded into longs in 
> memeory.
> There was no large bit anymore.   The first 8 blocks addresses in the 
> inode were always single indirect, the next two were single indirect, 
> and the last one was double indirect.   (If my memory serves me right)

Wasn't there a triple-indirect block as the very last one?

Arnold


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