14th February 2004, 4:57 PM
Megabyte sizes blocks? That's CRIMINALLY inefficient! Kilobyte sized blocks, THAT'S sensible. (It's exactly why even an empty text file on your computer still takes up a whole kilobyte, that's the block size.)
I was offering a quick fix for the current file system though.
Anyway, all memory cards should have kilobyte sized blocks, and the maximum file number should be the number of blocks the card has. Same maximum file limit as FAT32 and NTFS uses for instance, which as far as I know (I REALLY should look into this) is the same as the number of blocks, up to the maximum the file system can handle, which I believe is 2 terabytes.
I was offering a quick fix for the current file system though.
Anyway, all memory cards should have kilobyte sized blocks, and the maximum file number should be the number of blocks the card has. Same maximum file limit as FAT32 and NTFS uses for instance, which as far as I know (I REALLY should look into this) is the same as the number of blocks, up to the maximum the file system can handle, which I believe is 2 terabytes.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)