OpenEuphoria

Re: [OT] files/dir on windoze

• Posted by irv mullins <irvm at ellijay.com> Jul 11, 2004
• 569 views

Bernard Ryan wrote:
> 
> Irv:
> I found this on the internet at
>   <a
>   href="http://www.systemsmedic.com/SoftwareEdu2.htm">http://www.systemsmedic.com/SoftwareEdu2.htm</a>
> 
>  This is probably what is happening :
> 
> " Under the FAT system, files are always allocated an integral number
>  of clusters. On a 1.2GB hard disk with clusters of 32K, a text file
>  containing only the words "hello, world" may have a directory listing
>  of just 12 bytes, but the file will actually take up 32K of disk space.
>  The unused part of the cluster is called slack. Small files may have
>  slack equal to almost an entire cluster; on average, a file will have
>  half a cluster of slack. "

True, but I don't think that is what is happening in this case, for 
two reasons:

1. Different people (with no doubt different amounts of free disk space)
are coming up with the same limit of 8192 files.
2. When trying the test with 8.3 filenames, many more files can be 
written, even though the files themselves take up the same amount of space.

I think it's likely caused by a programming error in the LFN system.

Irv