| A flat file system is a system of files in which every
file in the system must have a different name. In Windows 95 and most other
operating system today, files are managed in a hierarchical file system
with a hierarchy of directories and subdirectories, each containing a number
of files (or subdirectories). The operating system allows more than one
file to have the same name as long as it is stored in a different directory.
Early versions of the Macintosh and DOS operating systems used a flat file
system. |
