| This class manages and creates the Block Allocation Table, which is
basically a set of linked lists of block indices.
Each block of the filesystem has an index. The first block, the
header, is skipped; the first block after the header is index 0,
the next is index 1, and so on.
A block's index is also its index into the Block Allocation
Table. The entry that it finds in the Block Allocation Table is the
index of the next block in the linked list of blocks making up a
file, or it is set to -2: end of list.
author: Marc Johnson (mjohnson at apache dot org) |