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| Oct 8, 2010 at 22:36 | comment | added | chunkyb2002 | Thanks for the extra info. I would hope he's planning on using a modern filesystem but you never know :D | |
| Oct 8, 2010 at 20:36 | comment | added | CarlF | There are advantages to partitioning with some filesystems, mainly because their table of file descriptors was of limited size, so to handle very large partitions they increased the block size. Since the OS has to read one entire block at a time, this could mean that reading 1K of data required the OS to read 16K of data from the disk. For modern filesystems, this is not an issue and in general I agree with chunkyb2002. | |
| Oct 8, 2010 at 20:30 | history | answered | chunkyb2002 | CC BY-SA 2.5 |