On Saturday, December 21, 2002, at 12:36 AM, Mark C. Langston wrote: > On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 04:09:50PM -0800, Brett V. Gaspers wrote: >> Um...hate to say the emperor is wearing no clothes here, but isn't >> the filesystem used by OSX AND OS9 HFS+? And this is the same >> filesystem we've been using for several years? >> >> Or are you talking about UFS? (which very few Mac users are or should >> be using) > > > It seems my understanding, and thus my explanation, were incomplete. > Since I mentioned inodes, the description I gave would more accurately > pertain to UFS. However, OS X uses HFS+ (whereas OS 9 uses HFS (no > plus)). My machines have all been HFS+ since OS 8.6 Been using HFS+ for YEARS... not HFS and as far as i'm aware the block size in HFS+ is always 512 - so i imagine there is very little waste. --- http://www.mp3.com/lukeetyrnal (music no one likes) etyrnal at ameritech.net