Mike O'Connor wrote:
> Ray Davison wrote:
> 
>>Should InfoZip work on FAT32?  I have a 8G FAT32 that has 2.4G free. 
>>The log file ends with a bunch of AVI files being added, and then 
>>nothing, it just exits.  The drive I am running from and writing to is 
>>20G HPFS with 18G free.
>>
>>Ray
> 
> Hi Ray,
> Seeing there is AFAIK a *FILE* size limitation on HPFS of 2GB, that's 
> not surprising - use JFS, if your infozip can create FILES > 2GB, 
> otherwise use RAR, which can.

Thanks Mike.  I probably even knew that, a long time ago, when it 
didn't matter.  This is probably the first time I ever tried to Zip 
one of my large drives.  I have always just copied them across the net 
to a storage box.  I have a 160G HDD on a socket seven machine that 
mostly just holds stuff I might want some day.  There was no real need 
to compress.  And there still isn't.  I was just setting some stuff 
aside to use in building a new primary HDD.  I had space to copy and did.

Regarding JFS and, although you didn't say it, presumably LVM. 
Someone once said "If you build a better mouse trap the world will 
beat a path to your door".  In real world marketing that has almost 
always been nonsense.  Generally, the marketer has to first point out 
that the potential customer has mice.  And then he must convince him 
that mice are bad.  Only then can he present his solution, in this 
case the mouse trap.

OK, I have mice.  I have DOS, Win98SE and W4.  But these mice have 
been good to me.  They are all friends, they help each other.  I have 
plugin racks in every machine.  I could completely alternate between 
those OSs and maybe a couple more.  But I like all my mice in one 
cage.  If I install an OS on a proprietary partition I assume the next 
thing I have to do is install it again, so I have a maintenance system 
that I can use to work on the first one.

If OS/2 ever takes over the desktop, and of coarse provides me what I 
need/want, I'll run just that, on whatever file system it is using at 
the time.  But for now, JFS/LVM just don't seem to be a solution for 
which I have a problem.

Ray



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