Hi Biswaroop, You're right - for larger images a larger allocation block size is necessary (limitation of HFS). The only 'alternative' would be to use HFS+ and a smaller allocation block size.
-Nandini
----- Original Message ----- From: "Biswaroop(External)" biswaroopb@integramicro.com To: hfs-user@lists.mars.org Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 1:00 PM Subject: [hfs-user] Problem of Allocation Block Size
Hi,
When I create a volume of bigger size for eg. 640 MB
Now since allocation units is fixed at 65536. Therefore Bytes per allocation unit becomes 640 * 2 ^20 / 65536 = 10 * 2^10 (10K) (approx) That means if i give even one allocation block for each file i am physically giving him 10k space even though file may be some 100 bytes which results in space wastage. I also believe there is no solution because each file should have atleast one allocation block and each file should start from a new allocation block . I am just wondering if I am right??? Or there is some alternative!! Waitng for ur comments. regards Biswaroop
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