Re: Size Limit

[sknkwrks@ronnie.cs.unlv.edu (Scott Alfter)]

In article <2711ij$f5a@apple.com> unknown@apple.com (Matt Ackeret) writes:
>And of course the only reason HFS can use bigger volumes is because
>it uses a bigger allocation block size, so your minimum file size is 
>larger.  (For a 4 gig drive I presume the minimum file size would be 62.5K?
>I used the rough (4000000000/32000000)*.5K..)

It'd be 64K...(2^2*(2^10)^3)/2^16=2^32/2^16=2^16.  Of course, if you
had that much drive space, it'd be partitioned so that you'd have a
more reasonable cluster size (preferably no more than 8K).

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