To enable performing the judgement of erasure of a file on a recording medium at a high speed.
An entry property 2 included in entry property performs discrimination of normal and system. The normal means entry of actual data, The system means entry in which definition of a flag is described. The flag indicates attribute information of a file. The flag is defined by an equipment or a user. An entry property 3 performs discrimination of validity or invalidity about entry, an entry property 4 indicates whether a file registered in the entry refers to other file or not. A referred counter indicates the number in which the file is referred by the other file. A referring file list indicates the original of referring when the file is referred by the other file. Reference relation between files can be described by these information.
ARITOME KENICHIRO
ISHIZAKA TOSHIYA
Takuma Sugiura
Koichi Mori