Patent ID: 8416658
Filing Date: 2013-04-09
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. A recording apparatus for recording data on a recording medium having at least one recording unit, each recording unit including a plurality of blocks, comprising: assigning means for assigning a region, in each block of the plurality of blocks utilized for one recording unit of the recording medium, as a file system information region utilized as a region for file system information for managing the data on the recording medium and for assigning a remaining region in each block as a data recording region for recording data; and recording means (a) operable to cumulatively record file system information, for data that has already been recorded in all previous blocks and a current block, in the file system information region of the current block until the file system information region in the current block is filled, and (b) operable to cumulatively record file system information, for data in all blocks subsequent to the block having the filled file system information region, in the file system information region of each subsequent block thereafter, wherein the file system information and data are simultaneously recorded in a same block.