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From: scotty@l5comp.UUCP (Scott Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Making a custom Filing System
Message-ID: <158@l5comp.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 27-May-87 07:16:49 EDT
Article-I.D.: l5comp.158
Posted: Wed May 27 07:16:49 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 30-May-87 06:43:39 EDT
References: <139@l5comp.UUCP> <172200060@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: scotty@l5comp.UUCP (Scott Turner)
Organization: L5 Computing, Edmonds, WA
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Summary: Huh?

In article <172200060@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu> hamilton@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>    sure there is.  since block 0 can never appear in a file, zero
>be used as a magic cookie, just like i-numbers on a Unix filesystem.
If I understand the use of these next pointers 0 is used to indicate end of
the line...

And even if it weren't there's only ONE next field per block. If that field is
used to say "The next block is sparse" how do I get to the next non-sparse
block?

Scott Turner


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