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Re: Long filenames
> Agreed, but let's think of this. With an 8GB drive using the
> VFAT system, you'd have 32K cluster sizes. And, actually, you'd only be
> able to use the first 2GB. So keeping that in mind, and the huge cluster
> sizes, you'd waste a great deal of the drive as well. I'm not saying
> either system is great, but calling VFAT "far superior" to the mac
> filesystem is a *gross* lie.
On what do you base the 'you'd only be able to use the first 2GB'? I
seem to recall FAT and VFAT allowing partitions larger than that. HFS,
I am told, has a maximum of 64k allocation blocks per partition, and the
blocks are scaled so that they cover the whole drive. In the case of an
8 GB drive, the allocation blocks would be 128k, and since files require
at least 1 allocation block you still have the maximum of 64k files.
Either way, I've never called VFAT 'far superior' to HFS...they both really
suck. Give me ext2fs, or maybe ffs.
--Jered
jered@mit.edu
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