Re: //GS Hard Drive Question

[ntt@cleese.apana.org.au (Jonathan Pratt)]

schultp@aa.wl.com (Paul Schultz) writes:
> 
> Yes, if formatting using the ProDOS FST. ProDOS has a 32MB limit
> on partitions. But, with the HFS FST you can have a partition up
> to 4GB in size. A word of caution concerning the HFS FST. There
> have been some sporadic reports of bizarre behavior (reported here
> on csa2) when using a large HFS partition with LOTS of files on it.
> That's all I can recall concerning this; perhaps someone else with
> a better memory can jump in here and give more details.

HFS is slow (very slow when you get larger sized volumes, because each
logical block gets mapped to several physical blocks.)  The max volume
size for HFS is 2GB (not 4), which is like having 64K logical blocks each
being 32KB in size, whereas ProDOS only allows the 512 byte size. (64K *
32K = 2GB,   64K * 1/2K = 32MB)

cheers
ntt@cleese