Am Mittwoch, 28. November 2001 09:58 schrieb Chris Tillman: > On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 07:45:51PM +0800, Kin Chung wrote: > > Michael Schmitz wrote: > > >Fabian Jakobs wrote: > > >> does HFS have any restrictions concerning partition size? > > > > > >HFS doesn't - MockOS might (at least 7.5.x wasn't happy with huge > > >partitions IIRC; 1 GB should be fine though). > > > > As far as I know, Sys 9.0.4 is quite happy with absolutely huge > > partitions (I seem to recall that my ibook came with it installed > > on one huge 10 metric GB partition). I would guess that the later* > > versions of MacOS would be happy with large partitions, although > > I seem to recall somebody mentioning that HFS may get a little short > > of inodes at large sizes. I did have a >1 GB HFS partition at one > > stage, and had no problems with it (then again, I never did get > > anywhere near filling it up). > > > > Cheers, > > > > Kin Hoong > > There used to be a 2GB limit that was relieved around System 8 or > so. But as you mentioned HFS file fragments get huge above 2GB (more > than 64k each) because IIRC HFS splits the disk into 32000 pieces no > matter what the size. So you really lose big for many small > files. Also, MacOS Sys 7 would really bog down bad with more than 500 > files in a folder.
I experienced exactly theese problems. I created a 40G HFS partition and copied my Systemdisk (HFS+), which contained about 4.5 GB of data, to this new partition. The 40G Partition was full afterwards!!!!! So putting HFS on a huge partition seems not to be a very good idea. I think, I'll have to try something different.
