Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 08:13:25 -1000 From: Clifton Royston <cliftonr@tikitechnologies.com> To: "mail.schatti.ch" <listman-dated-1117183313.1271a6@schatti.ch> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hints for small file system Message-ID: <20050514181325.GB20749@tikitechnologies.com> In-Reply-To: <courier.42852A51.0000D082@mail.schatti.ch> References: <courier.42852A51.0000D082@mail.schatti.ch>
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On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 10:29:37PM +0000, mail.schatti.ch wrote:
> If you had to choose amongst the available filesystems on 5.4 to contain
> just about 500kB to a MB, which would you use, and with what parameters ?
> Which of these has the lowest administration overhead, the lowest space
> overhead ?
One thing going for FAT32 for portable media is that it can be read and
written reliably by any major OS on the market now - Linux, OS X, or of
course Windows XP/NT or 98. You could view that as a positive or
negative depending on the application.
-- Clifton
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Clifton Royston -- cliftonr@tikitechnologies.com
Tiki Technologies Lead Programmer/Software Architect
"I'm gonna tell my son to grow up pretty as the grass is green
And whip-smart as the English Channel's wide..."
-- 'Whip-Smart', Liz Phair
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