Patent ID: 8200936

Claim:
An information recording apparatus comprising: a dividing module configured to divide a recording area of an information recording medium into a plurality of management areas; and an allocating module configured to allocate any one of the management areas as a writing area for first file data, when writing of the first file data is requested, the allocating module comprising: a first controller, if second file data constituting a same file as the first file data are written in a first management area of the plurality of management areas, configured to allocate an area located next to an area of the first management area in which the second file data are written, as the writing area for the first file data; a second controller, if any management area in which the second file data is written is not present in the plurality of the management areas, and third file data written in a second management area of the plurality of management areas include information indicating that the third file data is last part of data written in the second management area, configured to allocate an area located next to an area of the second management area in which the third file data are written, as the writing area for the first file data.