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RDRVSX32: FAT32 RAM drive for HimemSX (Announce)

posted by Zyzzle, 17.03.2022, 03:10

So the
> FAT32 option is probably only useful in rare cases.
Very useful to reduce slack space (wasted space) due to large cluster sizes necessary in large FAT16 drives, when copying / storing large numbers of small files. I think a 2 GiB FAT32 drive may even use 512-byte clusters, vs 32 kb clusters for a 2 GiB FAT16 drive. The size of the FAT increases drastically when using small cluster sizes, however.

May we have the option in new rdsk32.exe to specifiy the exact cluster size of the created FAT32 ramdrive and the number of FATs and root directory entries? Does the possibility also exist to change the sector-size to 1024, 2048, or 4096 bytes?
(It doesn't hurt to ask!)

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