Patent ID: 6055547
Filing Date: 2000-04-25
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
A data processing system having a number of users coupled to a number of hosts, comprising:a. a number of allocate and release tables accessible by the number of hosts for managing the allocation and release of space within a number of files which are shared by the number of hosts;b. wherein each one of the number of allocate and release tables corresponds to a one of the number of files;c. wherein a particular one of the number of hosts allocates the one or more of a number of blocks within the number of files to store a particular one of a number of messages, said particular one of the number of hosts determining from the number of allocate and release tables which one or more of the number of files to store said particular one of said number of messages; andd. wherein each one of the number of allocate and release tables further comprises a number of links to other ones of the number of blocks, said links indicating which other ones of the number of blocks within the one of the number of files have been allocated to store said particular one of the number of messages.