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- From: kent@sunfs3.Camex.COM (Kent Borg)
- Subject: Re: # of files
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.143819.11599@sunfs3.Camex.COM>
- Organization: Camex Inc., Boston MA
- References: <1992Aug24.111456.20439@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> <BtLr5D.Hy7@iat.holonet.net> <YORK.92Aug26160243@oakland-hills.lucid.com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 14:38:19 EDT
- Lines: 63
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- In article <YORK.92Aug26160243@oakland-hills.lucid.com> York@Lucid.COM writes:
- >In article <BtLr5D.Hy7@iat.holonet.net> kellys@orac.holonet.net (Kelly Schwarzhoff) writes:
- >
- > From: kellys@orac.holonet.net (Kelly Schwarzhoff)
- >
- > Is there anyway to get around this limit? I have a 600MB drive and have it
- > formatted so that each block is 10k and can't find a way to have smaller
- > blocks. Is the limit of 2^16 due to the operating software or just the
- > software that formats the drive.
- >
- > The reason I'm asking this is that we're setting up a large FirstClass BBS
- > software and it stores every message as a file and you cannot have the
- > messages in seperate volumes / partitions. I'm running System 7.0 on a IIfx.
- >
- >Can the software store messages in sub-folders of the main
- >message-area folder? You could then make these sub-folders be aliases
- >pointing to folders on different partitions. Or does the BBS software
- >circumvent your access to the filesystem completely?
- >
-
-
- The 2^16 limit is an HFS limit.
-
- No, Firstclass does not circumvent the file system, aliases are not
- implemented by the file system--which is what annoys the makers of
- Firstclass. I think they wish they were on a Unix box. To use
- aliases would require extra irksome work on their part.
-
- As a result Firstclass does not know about aliases and isn't likely to
- soon--at least judging from a phone conversation I once had with
- someone fairly technical there. It seems that they are getting burned
- by the Mac's lack of preemptive multitasking and generally starting to
- fight with their server platform choice, not cooperate with it. I am
- worried. (Notice sometime how the server's screen--1.0 at least--can
- get painted and scroll *while* a menu is down. Horrors.)
-
- Disclaimer: I have not yet installed Firstclass version 2, my only
- experiance is with the first version.
-
- As for how to make partitioning choices, put your system folder and
- any non-FirstClass stuff on a small partition (or separate disk) and
- give the the Firstclass database (I think just the "FirstClass Post
- Office" folder) as much space as you can. Your limit is likely going
- to be the 64K-blocks wall. A big allocation size will keep the larger
- files from gobbling up so many of those blocks. Yes, seeing 10K
- vanish with each little message hurts, but total bytes is not the
- first limit you are going to hit with a little-file-laden BBS on a big
- disk. Yes, using two 300 Meg partitions would get you farther, but
- only if you are allowed. A 600 partition is always going to hold at
- least as much as a 300--and usually far more.
-
- Weasel Words: I am sure I have the term "allocation size" slightly
- wrong, but it shouldn't demolish my underlying points.
-
- Coward's Words: Please be gentle when it does become obvious that I
- have no valid underlying points.
-
-
- --
- Kent Borg kent@camex.com or kentborg@aol.com
- H:(617) 776-6899 W:(617) 426-3577
- As always, things look better when some costs are left out.
- -Economist 3-28-92 p. 94
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