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- From: geoffb@coos.dartmouth.edu (Thumper)
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- Subject: Re: Mac volume
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 17:45:35 GMT
- References: <ste.3@postman.hsn.no> <1993Jan26.205333.3280@novell.com>
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- In <1993Jan26.205333.3280@novell.com> dseeman@novell.com (Daniel Seeman) writes:
-
- >But the bottom line is you should not use volumes larger
- >than 2 Gig. if Macintoshes are to mount and write to that volume. I personally
- >wouldn't use sizes greater than 1.3 Gig. as I have seen troubles on (AFP) vol-
- >umes of that size too.
-
- If you're going to use large volumes (above 200MB really) you also need to
- take care with the memory partition of the System 6 Finder. The default
- setting of 160K is easily outclassed if there are too many items on the
- root level of such network volumes. I recommend boosting the partition to
- 512K or so if you're going to be dealing with network volumes that could
- have more than 50 or so items in any given directory.
-
- System 7 manages this situation just fine without any help.
-
- -Geoff
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- geoffb@Dartmouth.EDU - Computing Support Consultant, Tuck School of Business
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