The scheme is named after its creator Grigory Orlov, who first posted a brief description and implementation for OpenBSD <ref>{{cite web | url=http://web.archive.org/web/20080131082712/http://www.ptci.ru/gluk/dirpref/old/dirpref.html | title=Directory Allocation Algorithm For FFS | author=Grigoriy Orlov |archiveurl = http://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 [[BSD]] Fast Filesystem [[Kernel (computer science)|kernel]] variants.
