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multiple cluster size drive

 use different sections of a drive with different size clusters to manage space
 
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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.
—joltrushsoon, Mar 04 2000

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.   

       Or do I misunderstand your idea?
—egnor, Mar 04 2000
   

       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."
—johan, Mar 05 2000
   

       just to make one thing clear - when i said 'drive', i meant 'partition'
—joltrushsoon, May 15 2000
   

       Completely baked.   

       Whether it's called a drive or a partition, most file systems allow for variable cluster sizes.
—BigThor, Aug 04 2000
   


 

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