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

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From: GLENN
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 00:00

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Doug,

    You make it sound as if you know a little about HPFS  ;)

-Scott


In article <DFH3Fy.BAF@bocanews.bocaraton.ibm.com>,
Doug Azzarito <Doug_Azzarito@bocaraton.ibm.com> wrote:
>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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From: stg0441@rs.ucc.okstate.edu (GLENN)
Subject: Re: Is max HPFS drive size only 2 GB? [No]
Date: 1995/09/25
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