-=> Quoting Dan Egli to Jean Parrot <=-

 DE> Hey JEAN,

 DE> 21 Jun 04 10:13, you wrote to me:
 
 JP>         Hello Dan, 'tis a nice day today.
 
 DE>> Don't do that! That's a horrible idea! NTFS Sucks!
 
 JP>         Different folks. I like it.


 DE> It's not real for one thing. All NTFS is when you get down to it is a
 DE> POORLY hacked copy of OS/2's HPFS. I know. I've read the specs for NTFS
 DE> 1. Its about 85% identical to the OS/2 HPFS spec. But M$, in typical
 DE> fassion, slaughtered it when they stole it.

 DE> Plus it's SOO incompatable. I admit that HPFS had that issue too, but
 DE> Most O/S's these days (Windows excluded) understand HPFS well enough to
 DE> Read/Write From/To it. M$ Keeps changing the NTFS spec so 3rd party
 DE> developers never know which way is up.

Don't both eliminate the problem of large cluster sizes with large 
hard drive partition sizes? 

I used to have more of this table that extended the cluster size up 
for the really large partition sizes: 

   Hard Disk Partition size to Cluster size.

   Partition size     |     Cluster size
   ----------------------------------------
                      |
     1-15 MByte       |       4096 / 4K
                      |
    16-127 MByte      |       2048 / 2K
                      |
   128-255 MByte      |       4096 / 4K
                      |
   256-512 MByte      |       8192 / 8K
                      |
   
   A Cluster is the smallest amount of disk space that a file will use.
   
   A 1 byte file will use one cluster. In a 300 MB partition, that would
   be 8192 bytes to store a one byte file.
   
   For the most efficient use of disk space, use partitions of 16-127 MB.

My 2.2GB drive is partitioned into 13 drives letters: 
8-127MB, 1-50MB, 4-255MB. 

All to keep that wasted cluster space manageable, and yet leave a few 
drive letters for access to my parallel port drive boxes. 

The 50MB partition is where I have the Windows 3.1 10MB permanent 
swap file for virtual memory. 
Also the TEMP/TMP directory. 


Bruce Clark 

 
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