Storage medium with reserved area for file system data and application start-up data

摘要

According to a first aspect of the invention, data that will be needed for starting the applications of the storage medium are stored in a reserved area of the storage medium. The data stored in the reserved area are read and cached in a single operation when the storage medium is declared to the operating system. Therefore the seeking and spinning-up operations of the reading head that are required for starting the application(s) are limited to a minimum. According to a second aspect of the invention, programs that create a new application file indicate whether this application file should be assigned to the reserved area. If so, the file system implementation allocates the application file to the reserved area.