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by having two or more differnt sizes of clusters on a drive, you can manage space more efficiently - this would mean that all your system files would waste less space yet the file allocation table wouldn't have too many blocks to make it slow or unusable.
Apple's HFS Plus
http://developer.ap...otes/tn/tn1150.html
[johan, Mar 04 2000]
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Um, most filesystems already do this.
Unix filesystems typically have "blocks"
and "fragments", for example. It's only
lame, legacy-ridden (read: DOS) filesystems
that are limited to a single cluster size. |
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Or do I misunderstand your idea? |
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Apple introduced better disk space management in MacOS 8.1 (Shipped about
Jan 1998?) I added a link. Look at the section called "Efficient Use of
Disk Space." |
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just to make one thing clear - when i said 'drive', i meant 'partition' |
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Whether it's called a drive or a partition, most file systems allow for variable cluster sizes. |
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