Interesting. I had an idea cooking some days ago. And implementing exactly this was the first step that i was gonna work on this weekend. Funny how often this happens here on HN. Thank you for this inspiration & motivation. And: It was a joy to read.
Every systems engineer at some point in their journey yearns to write a filesystem
It reminds me of a friend who had a TRS-80 color computer (like me) in the 1980s who was a self-taught BASIC programmer who developed a very complex BBS system and was frustrated that the cluster size for the RS-DOS file system was half a track so there was a lot of space wasted when you stored small files. He called me up one day and told me he'd managed to store 180k of files on a 157k disc and I had to break it to him that he was storing 150k (minus metadata) files on a 157k disk as opposed to the 125k or so he was getting before... With BASIC!
Interesting. I had an idea cooking some days ago. And implementing exactly this was the first step that i was gonna work on this weekend. Funny how often this happens here on HN. Thank you for this inspiration & motivation. And: It was a joy to read.
Love the quote:
It reminds me of a friend who had a TRS-80 color computer (like me) in the 1980s who was a self-taught BASIC programmer who developed a very complex BBS system and was frustrated that the cluster size for the RS-DOS file system was half a track so there was a lot of space wasted when you stored small files. He called me up one day and told me he'd managed to store 180k of files on a 157k disc and I had to break it to him that he was storing 150k (minus metadata) files on a 157k disk as opposed to the 125k or so he was getting before... With BASIC!