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- From: msjle@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Joi L. Ellis)
- Subject: Re: Number of subdirectories limited ?
- Message-ID: <Bxvr1J.LJ7@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu>
- Organization: Educational Computing Network
- References: <1992Nov17.111130.17833@cs.tu-berlin.de> <1992Nov17.195401.772@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 21:44:06 GMT
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- jav2d@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Jason Adams Vanvalkenburgh) writes:
-
- >ernst@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de writes:
- >> Hi,
- >>
- >> I know there is a limitation on the number of subdirectories in the
- >> root directory, but is there any limitation in directories other
- >> than "\" ?
- >>
- No, there is NOT.
-
- >> Thanks for any info, Ernst.
- >> --
- >>
- >> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >> Ernst Kloecker phone: ++49-30-6181635 e-mail: ernst@cs.tu-berlin.de
- >> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- >The FAT system only allows a maximum number of file entries. I'm not
-
- In the ROOT of the volume. You can have a huge number of files in
- subdirectories off the root.
-
- >have any more than 112 file entries. Therefore 112 0-byte files would
- >actually fill up the disk, because the FAT tables were full. Larger
-
- FAT tables are used to track clusters of data allocated on the volume.
- They don't have anything to do with directory capacity other than that
- directories are themselves files which occupy clusters tracked in the
- FAT.
-
- Zero length files take up no disk space, only a 32-byte (or whatever)
- slot in the directory "file." Many, many empty files will take up many
- many 32-byte slots and cause the directory "file" to grow. Directory
- entrys are not tracked individually in the FAT unless the file has space
- allocated. The directory "file" itself will occupy disk space and be
- tracked in the FAT.
-
- It would be theoretically possible to fill a disk with empty files, but
- it would be due to the directory containing the filesnames growing to
- fill the disk, not the number of entries themselves.
-
- Paper scritching tells me you could get 360K * (1024/32) = 23,040
- zero length files on a floppy before the directory "file" filled the
- space available.
-
- (Note that Novell Netware DOES have such a limitation in 2.x versions,
- because the volume structure is radically different than DOS.)
-
- >capacity disks have proportionally more space allocated for the FAT
- >tables, etc. I had never heard of limitations for the root directory,
- >though.
-
- >Hope this answers your question.
-
- >--
- > Jason A. vanValkenburgh
- > University of Virginia '95
- > jav2d@virginia.edu
- --
- Joi Ellis msjle@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu
- Student Residential Programs Western Illinois University
-
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