Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/09/02/04:03:06
On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, Pieter van Ginkel wrote:
> A question. If you had to choose a fat system for a new Os, and you could
> choose from a set (listed below), what one would you choose, why that one
> and why not a other one.
At a risk of triggering a religious war, I'll dare to submit that it
almost doesn't matter, not if your concern is performance. I/O
performance mostly depends on how low-level I/O primitives are
implemented, its dependance on the physical layout of the disk is
marginal. As one data point, consider this: many Windows/NT
installations, at least around me, ship with their system disk
formatted as FAT, not NTFS.
IMHO, you should make your choice based on how wide-spread a given
filesystem is. That would make your OS be easy to install and run on
most machines out there.
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