Re: What's the weirdest filesystem out there?

Antoon Pardon wrote:
> Op 2006-01-30, Ian Pilcher schreef <i.pilcher@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Asking here, because I can't think of a more appropriate place...
>>
>>
>> Background:
>>
>> I'm working on code which needs to break the pathname in a Java File
>> object into its component parts:
>>
>> 1. An optional filesystem identifier (such as a drive letter).
>> 2. An optional root directory.
>> 3. Zero or more subdirectories.
>> 4. An optional filename.
>>
>> Depending on the platform and filesystem, 1 and 2 may or may not be
>> separable.
>>
>>
>> Question:
>>
>> Is there any platform out there that uses something than its
>> directory separator to signify a root directory? (To put it another
>> way, what's the weirdest hierarchical filesystem out there?)
>
> ADFS? It was used on the Archimes machines from acorn.

That's Archimedes

>
> '$' was used for the root directory and '.' was the directory
> separator. So a full name was something like:
>
> :MediaName.$.sub1.sub2.file

No worse than DOS, just different identifiers.

It is still used, the OS being RISC OS.

It was intially limited to 77 files per directory, and filename of only 10
characters, although it did not need the DOS type extensions, the file types
were contained within the load address.

--
David Buck
2D CAD for RISC OS at www.risccad.freeuk.com


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