Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!umd5!rutgers!mtune!whuts!homxb!ihnp4!ihlpg!tainter
From: tainter@ihlpg.ATT.COM (Tainter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: info atari
Message-ID: <4753@ihlpg.ATT.COM>
Date: 3 Feb 88 16:20:11 GMT
References: <880126-191259-2856@Xerox>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
Lines: 20

In article <880126-191259-2856@Xerox>, "Robert_L._White.ESXC15"@Xerox.COM writes:
> Hi all,
> I know you have all heard this question before, but I need someone to answere
> this question, who knows for sure the correct answere.

> What is the 40 folder limit? Is it per partition? in the root directory?
> for all partitions (entire hard disk)?  What is it?

It is 40 folder ACCESSES across the entire hard disk and floppies.
The limit is imposed by the available directory buffering space on
the ST (a fixed value).  With floppies when you change the media
it will free the buffers for directories on the removed media.  But
the hard disk never does this so it never unbuffers their directories.

> Another told me it no more than 40 folders in the root directory.

Their is a limit of 256 directory entries on your root os something like
that.  But that is a different problem.

> Robert L. White