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- From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Is HPFS faster?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.173457.28095@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 17:34:57 GMT
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- In article <pathak-210792114347@virtual.mitre.org> pathak@mitre.org (Heeren Pathak) writes:
- >I believe that IBM recommends that you continue using FAT for small disks.
- >I think the minimum recommended HPFS size is 60Mb.
-
- Not quite. IBM recommends no less than 60MB for OS/2 2.0. HPFS uses
- up between 3% and 5% of your disk for HPFS-related data structures.
- FAT, on the other hand, uses a maximum of 256K for the FAT tables and
- root directory. Of course, with large volumes, FAT system end up with
- huge cluster sizes, resulting in disk allocation in increments of 8K
- or more.
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