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- From: kellys@orac.holonet.net (Kelly Schwarzhoff)
- Subject: Re: # of files
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- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 17:56:01 GMT
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- > - each volume is partitioned to a maximum of 2^16 = 65536 blocks.
- > The blocksize is a multiple of 512 Bytes.
- > The result: on a 30 MB-hard disk each block is 512 bytes, on larger
- > volumes
- > the blocksize will be increased. On a 200 MB hard disk the
- > blocksize will be
- > 3.5 KBytes, on a CD-ROM or 650 MB hard disk the size is about 10
- > KBytes.
-
- 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.
-
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