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- Subject: Re: Limit on files per directory
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.233025.27175@cs.aukuni.ac.nz>
- From: jwil1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (TMOTA)
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 23:30:25 GMT
- Sender: jwil1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (TMOTA)
- References: Re: Limit on files per directory <H.9USsmGstiAU@mips.ruessel.sub.org> <martin.716463955@thed.uk22.bull.com>
- Organization: Computer Science Dept. University of Auckland
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- [Stuff about 77files/directory limit being imposed by FileCore...]
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- I'm pretty sure that the 77 file/dir limit is imposed by ADFS, NOT filecore.
- This is because FS's like ArcFS, SparkFS, NetFS aren't (to my knowledge)
- affected by this limit.
- I think SCSI FS's are limited to 77 because they are modeled on ADFS, but I
- could be completely wrong...
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- >It depends if it was a real filer window that had the 102 files in it. If it was
- >a "filer" window put on screen by a utility, then it is quite feasible to
- >exceed your 77 file limit. Someone even suggested using Arcfs in it's "Simply
- >store the files, don't zap em" mode to get round the limit in RO2 for a large
- >font directory. This sounds like a good way to compile some of the GNU stuff,
- >'cos they just love having 200 files in a directory :-)
-
- Using ArcFS on your font directory will allow you
- to transcend the 77 file limit, though the font manager uses a path anyway,
- so I just have 2 directories containing my fonts, which works fine...
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- Also, note that about 33% of the space taken up on large hard drives by fonts
- is actually taken up by the directories themselves, so ArcFS'ing the fonts
- will actually reduce the amount of disc space taken (ArcFS uses less than 14kB
- to store each directory...)
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