Re: Is max HPFS drive size only 2 GB? [No]

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From: Doug Azzarito
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 00:00

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In <43s6eu$311@engr.orst.edu>, johnsos@holmes.ece.orst.edu (Scott Johnson) writes:
>I don't exactly know
>how HPFS.IFS does things, but I suspect that large partitions slow it down...

Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzt!  Wrong, but thanks for playing.

Large partitions don't slow HPFS, and they often speed things up!  HPFS doesn't
have to separate cache I/O by volume, so there's no reason to make small 
partitions.  You don't have "clusters," so no matter what your partition size is,
you'll have the same storage efficiency.

CHKDSK is slow because it is single threaded.  Really old, poorly written code.
A multi-threaded, 32-bit version would really make a difference.

 -- Doug Azzarito
    "The OS/2 Guy"

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Subject: Re: Is max HPFS drive size only 2 GB? [No]
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