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Re: Long filenames



> 	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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