Patent ID: 9575972
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method of writing, by a file system of a computer system, a file to a storage media comprising: receiving data associated with the file to be written; determining an amount of space associated with the file; reading a bitmap associated with the storage media to identify areas of free space on the media; identifying from the areas of free space on the storage media contiguous free space equal to or greater than the space associated with the file; writing the file to the storage media as a contiguous file when an area of contiguous free space on the media greater than or equal to the space associated with the file is identified; and setting a contiguous file flag in a directory entry associated with the file in a file directory of the storage medium, when the file is written as a contiguous file, without storing information about the contiguously written file in a file allocation table of the storage medium.