CONTROLLER, INFORMATION RECORDING DEVICE, ACCESS DEVICE, INFORMATION RECORDING SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION RECORDING METHOD

摘要

In a file system such as an FAT file system, clusters are linked only in the forward direction. To perform seeks to clusters in the reverse direction, links need to be followed from the beginning side of the file data in every seeking operation. When a large amount of data is subjected to such reverse seeking, the overhead will be particularly large. A memory controller (101) for controlling data writing or reading to or from an information recording medium includes a control unit (105) that detects continuity of data in an address space of a file system managing data that is recorded into the information recording medium and a data-continuity management unit (103) that stores information about the continuity of the data as data-continuity information.