Ok this all started over variable block size, which is why I made the comment about, defrag and opt. Next you statement "modern file systems don't need to have defrag or opt run against them on a regular basis" is horse shit. I don't know what kind of shop you work in but if you move large (200 megs or better files) across you machines and multi tetra bite storage systems 100's of times a day on both Mac and Windows you would have not made that statement. I know cause I do. Other than That I kind of agree with you.
You all miss the point. To answer coward over 1100 plus 1300 active emails mostly text. Under 6k Unlike you I use HFS+. When I copied my font and email over to HFS it grew by over 2gigs, I still don't get the error thing error correction should not be affected by block allocation size. as it just links to the next block. Then we still have the defrag and optimize problem.
A 5K font file now uses 8k put 500 fonts on your machine as a designer you see the problem. Email !.2k average file 4k How much mail do you keep. It keeps adding up and you loose massave amounts of space
Ok lets all get real for a minute if block size is not consistent how the hell will disk defragment and optimizer soft wear work. The Whole trick to those soft wear is moving the blocks around. Now if you want to loose the ability to fix and speed up your hard drive go for variable block size. But those of us who run multiple large drives want a small fixed block (to save space on things like fonts and e mail) otherwise our drives will quickly become unmanageable.
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Dymanac drive allocation? I don't even want to think about the system overhead that would take.
Coward I'm beginning to see why you use your handle. Disk block, Disk Sector size and cluster size have nothing to do with each other
Gee you think I might have a clue here
Ok this all started over variable block size, which is why I made the comment about, defrag and opt. Next you statement "modern file systems don't need to have defrag or opt run against them on a regular basis" is horse shit. I don't know what kind of shop you work in but if you move large (200 megs or better files) across you machines and multi tetra bite storage systems 100's of times a day on both Mac and Windows you would have not made that statement. I know cause I do. Other than That I kind of agree with you.
But all the block sizes have to be the same of the brogram can't move them around
You all miss the point. To answer coward over 1100 plus 1300 active emails mostly text. Under 6k Unlike you I use HFS+. When I copied my font and email over to HFS it grew by over 2gigs, I still don't get the error thing error correction should not be affected by block allocation size. as it just links to the next block. Then we still have the defrag and optimize problem.
error corection will step in to the next available block reread the story
A 5K font file now uses 8k put 500 fonts on your machine as a designer you see the problem. Email !.2k average file 4k How much mail do you keep. It keeps adding up and you loose massave amounts of space
Ok lets all get real for a minute if block size is not consistent how the hell will disk defragment and optimizer soft wear work. The Whole trick to those soft wear is moving the blocks around. Now if you want to loose the ability to fix and speed up your hard drive go for variable block size. But those of us who run multiple large drives want a small fixed block (to save space on things like fonts and e mail) otherwise our drives will quickly become unmanageable. Dan
Isn't this what apple tried to do 5+ years ago with HFS+