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From: dmb@wam.umd.edu (David M. Baggett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Big logical sectors and their effects
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Date: 13 Dec 90 14:12:10 GMT
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I was looking over my ICD host adapter docs last night, and found that
you can set the "logical sector size" as big as 8K.  The implication
was that you could have really huge partitions (e.g,, 512K per
_partition_) this way.  

What effect does changing the logical sector size have on the system?
Does it increase minimal file size?  E.g., if I create a 10 byte file,
will it take up 8K on the disk, since the sector is the smallest
unit of space that can be allocated?

Will a large sector size decrease performance?  Confuse applications
of any kind?  

Dave Baggett
dmb%wam.umd.edu@uunet.uu.net