... in my moviefs for 1%% drop in storage efficiency. since venti goes fast enough, any extra speed is wasted on streaming. A file system very suitable for this situation was that of DEC's RT11 (if it were not limited to 16bit block adresses). On this system, every file was contiguous, there was a directory, which looked mostly like a big partition table, because the directory had ...

...systems and several smaller chunks from 1GB to, say 20GB for multimedia files. Of course, you need utilities to manage these. A file system very suitable for this situation was that of DEC's RT11 (if it were not limited to 16bit block adresses). On this system, every file was contiguous, there was a directory, which looked mostly like a big partition table, because the directory had only...

...-RW + VCR. The useage of which is absolutely *Phenomenally* complex IMHO (& I've worked for over 30 years on nuclear instrumentation/nuclear medicine imaging systems & the associated D.E.C. computers running the RT11 F/B OS). It has only ever been used for playing DVD's and occasionally VCR's. 25 - 30 playbacks total. It too has now started getting "picky" re disks. Right now the Sony TV...