Subject: Hard-Drive DOS standard for SAM Newsgroups: comp.sys.sinclair Summary: Keywords:
Hello everyone... The time has come to work out the standard file structure for this new hard-drive thingummybob... I'm going to see about posting this to the SAM Users mail thingy as well, and I'll see if I can post all input from that here too... Basically, how should we arrange it all? I'd like a filesystem that has no limits on no' of files, allows user status (ie password protected areas, file groups, etc.... to allow networking / fileserver activity if it ever happens)... Basically, we've got to define how we're going to store the files on the disc, how it finds them when they're stored there, and what's held in the directory structure. Any ideas anyone? I'm currently thinking of 64 chars per directory entry, allowing 20 character (or so) filenames, with possibly a quick-to-access file system (ie one that is a combination of FAT and sector/head/track at the end of each logical sector (ala SAM)). So there you go... Si COoke
