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Received: from limekiller.MIT.EDU (LIMEKILLER.MIT.EDU [18.70.0.36]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id LAA12093 for <executor@nacm.com>; Fri, 20 Oct 1995 11:14:12 -0700 Received: (from jered@localhost) by limekiller.MIT.EDU (8.6.12/8.6.11) id OAA06588; Fri, 20 Oct 1995 14:14:00 -0400 From: Jered J Floyd <jered@mit.edu> Message-Id: <199510201814.OAA06588@limekiller.MIT.EDU> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.1 5/23/95 To: COCHRAN@genius.rider.edu cc: Jered J Floyd <jered@mit.edu>, Ed Hurtley <edh@europa.com>, "'Executor List'" <executor@nacm.com> Subject: Re: Long filenames In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 20 Oct 1995 12:52:53 EDT." <Pine.3.89.9510201214.A541095473-0100000@genius.rider.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 14:13:59 EDT Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk > 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