Author: Frank Naumann (wh58-508.st.uni-magdeburg.de)
Date: 08-05-2001 16:58
Hello!
> I recomend you to use MinixFS in FreeMiNT, > it has nearly the same performance as ext2,
That's not true:
http://wh58-508.st.uni-magdeburg.de/~fnaumann/minix_vs_ext2.html
Depending on the operation ext2 is much faster than MinixFS.
> but many more GEM-programs work happily
> from MinixFS.
Only bad written or old TOS programs. For strict compatibility also MinixFS isn't very good. Only FAT is backwardcompatible in all cases.
> The clustersize of MinixFS is 1kbyte, and I
> think the default in ext2 is 4kbyte. There
No, MinixFS has a fixed size of 1 KB. For ext2 you can choose 1, 2 or 4kbyte. Default is 1kbyte.
> are 65536 inodes in both, and I guess (I'm > not entierly sure here) that this is the
> maximum number of files/folders they can
> hold per partion.
Sorry, very wrong for ext2 too. MinixFS can only handle 65536 Inodes, that's right. This determine the maximum number of files and folders.
For ext2 the limit is 2^32 - 11.
> Regarding partion size, at least MinixFS
> can do partions, as I remember, 4 terabye
> large. So there is no real limit there
> (yet).
You are here wrong too. MinixFS is limited to 2 GB per partition. Ext2 can handle up to several Terrabytes.
There are some informations in the FreeMiNT documentation about this too (limits.txt).
Frank
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