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Damien Groves wrote in comp.sys.amiga.tech about "re: filesystem block sizes":

DG> 1.8 A/V = AUDIO/VIDEO
DG> means if you store either on your drive a larger block size gives you
DG> less overhead= (Faster transfers) example- a 10meg file with 4096k
DG> block size (either A/V) will in most cases give a sustained transfer
DG> rate thats faster due to the system not having to deal with all the
DG> overhead of finding and decoding 4 times the number sectors which you
DG> have with a 512k size. for most people a smaller sector size gives
DG> more storage space and faster file lookup

Please note that normal size is 512 bytes, not 512 kbytes.

The use of a bigger sectorsize has two sides.

   1) Faster access to the files contens.
   2) Every file will fill a given number of sectors.

Thus, if I had a sector size of 2048bytes, then I would use 106 kbyte for
the files in my s: directory (Provided they all are smaller then 2kbyte).
But if I had the sector size of 512, then my s: dir only tages about
50 kbytes. This is because most of the files are more then 512 bytes, and
thus will have to fill two sectors.

Hope this is understandable.


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