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- From: fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox)
- Subject: Re: Stacker Cluster Size
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.162508.14297@rei.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 16:25:08 GMT
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- References: <1992Sep9.165315.954@cognos.com>
- Organization: Recognition Equipment, Inc.
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- Stacker performs its compression only on each cluster at a time, so if
- you choose 4K clusters, then Stacker can only look at 4K of data at a
- time, rather than 8K, so data compression will not be as good.
-
- Don't worry about slack space. Stacker reuses slack space very well,
- and this actually accounts for much of the compression that Stacker
- reports. Any utilities that report a percentage of unused slack space
- on your Stacker drive are simply unaware that Stacker is reusing this
- space for other data.
-
- Smaller clusters also mean that DOS will have to manage more allocation
- units, but this is only an advantage if you are trying to fill a hard
- disk with files and most of them are less than 4K in size.
-
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