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From: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: directory limit
Message-ID: <1035@atari.UUCP>
Date: 4 Apr 88 20:12:13 GMT
References: <8804011616.AA00787@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA
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From article <8804011616.AA00787@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, by MCCABE@MTUS5.BITNET:
> Is there a limit to the number of files per directory?  I know MSDOS
> has a limit in the root directory but not the other subdirectories.
> Is GEMDOS the same?

Yes, GEMDOS is the same -- a limit on root directory size but no limit
to the number of files in a subdirectory.  If you want more files in
the root directory, you can fiddle with the boot sector of a freshly-
formatted disk (even a hard disk partition) to make the root directory
bigger -- this is one of the fields of the BPB that GEMDOS handles
correctly.

Note that big subdirectories will result in long file search times: all
files will be searched for from the start of the subdir.  When you
create a file, you'll search twice: once to be sure the file doesn't
already exist (and delete it if it does) and a second time to find an
empty slot.  You just have to deal with that, I'm afraid. 

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