From: "Geo" 

I find it interesting that they don't say you can change from 4 to 1
without reformatting.

Geo.

"Frank Haber"  wrote in message
news:422b947f{at}w3.nls.net...
> George, want to really get apoplectic?  Looky looky what MS created just
for
> you in XP, not that you'll ever use XP. On the one hand, they say that
> pathological databases with one file for every record will never inflate
the
> MFT to a similarly pathological state - those bad old Win2k days are
over..
>
> On the other, they seem to give you this feature....
>
>
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/De
fault.asp?url=/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prkc_fil_xhp
o.asp
>
> or
>
> http://makeashorterlink.com/?D24D52D9A
>
> I don't think I've ever seen a setting that demands so much crystal-ball
> action from the administrator since the P-System (preallocate all you'll
ever
> use for anything, for all time).  Well, the setting's there now.
>
> Maybe we should all just stay far away from file-per-record
"databases,"
and
> avoid the damp underwear effect?
>
> --
> -Frank
>
>

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