Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 16 May 2003 23:22:16 +0200 | From | Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <> | Subject | Re: FAT32 problems with kernel 2.4.19 |
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Tomas Szepe wrote: > [esp@pyroshells.com] > >> When I'm writing to FAT32 partition, there seems to be a 300% incurred >> size penalty over the equivalent files on ext2 (when unpacking a >> source distribution like boost, gcc, etc) > > I don't understand what you're trying to say. Can you elaborate?
If I understand him correctly, he is happy that ext2 has not as much overhead as FAT32.
esp@pyroshells.com: If you think the FAT32 overhead is a linux problem, please unpack the same source tree under windows on the same partition and report back if the space used is less than when unpacking this source tree under linux.
HTH, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/
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