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From: eplmst AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se (Martin Stromberg)
Message-Id: <199902011211.NAA18187@juno.erisoft.se>
Subject: Invented inode numbers
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com (DJGPP-WORKERS)
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 13:11:00 +0100 (MET)
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Please check my math:

Maximum partition size with FAT32 is 2TB which is 2^41. For those big
sizes FAT32 uses a cluster size of 32KB which is 2^15.

Hence maximum cluster number is 2^41/2^15 = 2^26.

INT_MAX is ~2^31.

Hence we have a lot of safe numbers to use for invented inode numbers.
Right?


Right,

							MartinS

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