Method for storing files on a storage medium, storage medium, and video recording apparatus using the method

[0024]FIG. 1 shows the memory map of all discs in a disc-based storage system according to the present invention. The available physical memory is divided into two different areas, namely a first area 10 and a second area 20. The space in the first area 10 and the second area 20 is given addresses, with a different address or cluster number being provided for each unit of constant size. Such unit, sometimes known as a cluster, may be a single stripe or a multiple of stripes, wherein a stripe is defined as a smallest search unit possible. In a RAID, on each of the discs the smallest search unit is called a block, and a stripe is nothing more than a multiplicity of blocks of all discs which are located or co-sited on the same place of the respective discs.

[0025]The first area 10 contains directories and small files, as well as the respective first portions of all large files, be it streaming data or other. All files and file portions in the first area 10 occupy a single unit of constant