Re: File storage waste !

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From: Tim
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1995 23:22

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In article <3gbg7e$ngd@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>, harris@ranger.enet.dec.com wrote:

>     The current Mac file system can only keep track of 65535 chunks of
>     space, so the minimum size of a chunk of space is disk size divided by
>     65535 rounded up to the next highest 512 byte boundary.

Do you know where does the number 65535 come from?  That is, why 65535?

Thanks.

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Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1995 19:22:07 -0400
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