Patent ID: 7305175

Claim:
An AV data recording apparatus, comprising: a recording/reproducing section for recording AV data onto a disk and reproducing the recorded AV data; and a system control section for controlling the recording/reproducing section; and a memory section for storing file management information for dividing an extent that corresponds to continuous blocks on the disk into groups and managing the extent as a file, and directory information for dividing the file into groups and managing the file as a directory, wherein the system control section causes the recording/reproducing section to select a least two from the directory information and the file management information stored in the memory section so as to include at least one of the directory information and the file management information with overlapping permitted, and record them in a reservation region kept as a reservation extent on the disk, and when a new subdirectory is created under the directory, the system control section causes the recording/reproducing section to record directory information on the subdirectory and file management information on a file to be created in a hierarchy of the subdirectory in the reservation region.