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== Etymology ==
The scheme is named after its creator Grigoriy Orlov, who first posted, in 2000, a brief description and implementation for [[OpenBSD]]<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.ptci.ru/gluk/dirpref/old/dirpref.html | title=Directory Allocation Algorithm For FFS | author=Grigoriy Orlov |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080131082712/http://www.ptci.ru/gluk/dirpref/old/dirpref.html |archivedate = 2008-01-31}}</ref> of the technique, which was later used in the [[Berkeley Software Distribution|BSD]] Fast Filesystem [[Kernel (computeroperating sciencesystem)|kernel]] variants.
 
== Background ==