Linked lists go back a long way. FAT is one, in a sense. DECtape file systems
for DOS (also RSTS) are linked, in the blocks. The same goes for the CDC 6000
file system (more precisely, it has contiguous blocks within a track, and links
from the last block in the track to the next track number).
paul
> On Apr 9, 2021, at 12:27 AM, Richard Sheppard via cctalk
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I believe the original Amiga file system also used a linked-list approach.
> That way you could, theoretically, reconstruct a file from any one of it’s
> data blocks.
> Richard
>
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