File management apparatus
AssigneesRenesas Technology Corp., Renesas Solutions Corporation
InventorTadashi Sakamoto
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Abstract
In a processor (10), an index creating unit 14 creates an index indicating a piece of file management information about a target file to be read from a file name specifying the target file to be read by using a function representing a one-to-one correspondence between file names and indexes. An index and file management information associating unit (15) reads apiece of file management information corresponding to the index created by the index creating unit (14) from a file management information array 13 in which plural pieces of file management information are aligned in ascending order of corresponding indexes, and then acquires a position where the target file to be read specified by the read piece of file management information is stored in a storage unit (30).
Claims6
A file management apparatus comprising:
- an index creating unit for creating an index indicating file management information that specifies a position where a target file to be read is stored in a storage unit from the target file's name by using a function representing a one-to-one correspondence between file names and indexes;
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- a storage access control unit for, to read the target file to be read from said storage unit, reading a piece of file management information corresponding to the index created by said index creating unit from a series of pieces of file management information in which plural pieces of file management information are aligned in order of corresponding indexes, and for acquiring a position where the target file to be read specified by the read piece of file management information is stored in said storage unit.
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