Hints for small file system

Clifton Royston cliftonr at tikitechnologies.com
Sat May 14 11:13:27 PDT 2005


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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