21 Feb
2016
21 Feb
'16
11:21 p.m.
Dave Horsfall scripsit:
Somewhere, deep within Minnie's bowels, there
might be a paper that I
wrote upon implementing a "bad block" system (specifically directed at the
RK-05, but generally applicable to any device); it involved the hitherto-
unused inode "0", to which were chained the bad blocks (added by hand).
The RSX-11 file system, later known as ODS-1, was similar in this respect:
the root directory contained entries for the bad-block file (BADBLK.SYS),
the inode-file-equivalent (INDEXF.SYS) and even itself (000000.DIR).
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