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From: thad@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Giant disks
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Date: 10 Oct 88 05:11:30 GMT
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Re: Steve Tibbett's question about larger block/sector sizes ...

it's always a trade-off.  A 1-byte or a (block-size)-byte file would both
consume the same-size data block; same for a one-byte overflow.

Block/sector sizes around 512 to 1024 bytes have generally proven to be
reasonable.