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- Cc: Ed Hurtley <edh@europa.com>, "'Executor List'" <executor@nacm.com>
- Subject: Re: Long filenames
- In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 20 Oct 1995 10:00:52 EDT."
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- Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 12:20:15 -0400
- From: Jered J Floyd <jered@mit.edu>
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- > He said that the VFAT system is superior to the Mac HFS, which is
- > just not true at all. I don't think anyone else had trouble
- > understanding my point, since nobody else commented on it. Let's dust it
- > off and try to use that old brain, OK?
-
- Oh dear....I didn't want to get into this. However, the Mac filesystem
- is uniquely limiting. In it's current instantiation, I am told, there is
- a rather low hard limit on the number of files that you can have on a Mac
- drive. Such that if you have an 8 GB drive and your average file size isn't
- around several dozen MB, most of your drive will be wasted.
-
- --Jered
- jered@mit.edu
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