What is the difference between file and random access file?

倖福魔咒の 提交于 2019-12-21 17:42:16

问题


what is the difference between file and random access file?


回答1:


A random access file is a file where you can "jump" to anywhere within it without having to read sequentially until the position you are interested in.

For example, say you have a 1MB file, and you are interested in 5 bytes that start after 100k of data. A random access file will allow you to "jump" to the 100k-th position in one operation. A non-random access file will require you to read 100k bytes first, and only then read the data you're interested in.

Hope that helps.

Clarification: this description is language-agnostic and does not relate to any specific file wrapper in any specific language/framework.




回答2:


Almost nothing these days. There used to be a time in certain operating systems where there were different types of files - some of which could be accessed randomly (at any point in the file) and others which could only be accessed sequentially. This made more sense when you were using a sequential medium such as tape. Any file system worth its salt these days only supports random access.



来源:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/905706/what-is-the-difference-between-file-and-random-access-file

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