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From: Neil Bothwick
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 1996 00:00

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Hi there Flemming Steffensen, I believe it was you who said:

> 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.

Don't forget that each file also needs a header block. so with a 2K
block, each file takes a minimum of 4K.


Neil
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Date: 1996/12/02
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