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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcrware!kris
- From: kris@microware.com (Kris Hoffmeyer)
- Subject: Re: New Stacker
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.193532.4713@microware.com>
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- Organization: Microware Systems Corp., Des Moines, Iowa
- References: <Steven_P._Oliver.036w@bearsden.UUCP> <1992Sep10.165416.14551@rei.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 19:35:32 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- In article <1992Sep10.165416.14551@rei.com> fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox) writes:
- >Steven_P._Oliver@bearsden.UUCP (Steven P. Oliver) writes:
- >
- >>And you can tell how much space is on your hard drive by doing a dir
- >>or by using FS by Norton.
- >
- >A quick note on Norton's FS -- It will tell you that there is unused
- >slack space on the Stacker drive, but what Norton doesn't realize is
- >that Stacker actually re-uses this slack space during its compression.
- >So any figures you see on slack space are reported by unaware software.
- >Stacker drives have very little slack space at all.
- >
- >--
- >#ifdef TRUE | Fuzzy Fox fuzzy@netcom.com
- >#define TRUE 0 | a.k.a. David DeSimone an207@cleveland.freenet.edu
- >#define FALSE 1 |
- >#endif | How's my posting? Call 1-800-ALT-FLAME
-
- I don't understand how stacker does not have slack space...
- Stacker does allow you to set the file block size, but it installs
- at 8K blocks, right? So if a file or it's last block is less than
- 8K, the rest is "slack", isn't it? I could see Norton's FS getting
- confused and being inaccurate in reporting slack space, but how does
- Stacker fix the "slack" issue...?
-
- Just wondering... (curious...)
- Kris.
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