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Received: from genius (genius.rider.edu [192.107.45.5]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id JAA10268 for <executor@nacm.com>; Fri, 20 Oct 1995 09:51:54 -0700 From: COCHRAN@genius.rider.edu Received: from genius.rider.edu by genius.rider.edu (PMDF V4.3-7 #10460) id <01HWNWUILWG08Y5JXT@genius.rider.edu>; Fri, 20 Oct 1995 12:52:55 EDT Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 12:52:53 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Long filenames In-reply-to: <199510201620.MAA22862@vorlon.mit.edu> To: Jered J Floyd <jered@mit.edu> Cc: Ed Hurtley <edh@europa.com>, "'Executor List'" <executor@nacm.com> Message-id: <Pine.3.89.9510201214.A541095473-0100000@genius.rider.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk On Fri, 20 Oct 1995, Jered J Floyd wrote: > > 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. > 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. Jon Cochran Rider University