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- From: yawei@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (~{QG9p~})
- Subject: Re: Number of subdirectories limited ?
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- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 19:39:16 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.162149.4799@nntp.nta.no> harald.ljoeen@nta.no writes:
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- >There is no *definite* limit to the number of entries in subdirectories.
- >However, as the FAT has fixed size, there *is* a definite limit to the
- >*total* number of files/subdirectories that can reside on the disk.
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- Saying that the FAT has fixed size is like saying that the disk has
- fixed size, :-) since there's a one-to-one relationship between a
- FAT entry and a disk cluster.
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- I do long for the day when we may have disks with unlimited capacity. :-)
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