[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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