Re: File storage waste !

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From: Castles Made of Sand
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 1995 03:30

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In article <lt10-2701951922070001@cu-dialup-0231.cit.cornell.edu>,
lt10@cornell.edu (Tim) wrote:

: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.

Everything in computers is done in binary. 2^16=65536, so I think there
are actually 65536 chunks, maybe numbered from 0 -> 65535...

Breen Hagan - gt8767a@prism.gatech.edu
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