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- 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."
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- Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 14:13:59 EDT
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- > 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
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