Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ucbvax!decwrl!labrea!polya!kaufman From: kaufman@polya.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: 'Virtual' Folders - bad idea!! Message-ID: <3126@polya.Stanford.EDU> Date: 25 Jun 88 00:43:11 GMT References: <8806161351.AA09732@decwrl.dec.com> <3216@polyslo.UUCP> <3818@saturn.ucsc.edu> <12530@apple.Apple.COM> <2421@cxsea.UUCP> <5151@dasys1.UUCP> Reply-To: kaufman@polya.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman) Organization: Stanford University Lines: 12 In article <5151@dasys1.UUCP> alexis@dasys1.UUCP (Alexis Rosen) writes: >The concept of the path is an elegant solution to the generic problem of how to >store and categorize files. In the Mac's case, it needs only one or two >alterations to really provide an intuitive, useful, and *COMPATIBLE* solution >to the problem that you, I, and everyone's uncle Harry is having with organizing >files on your typical average 780 MB disk... I should point out that the minimum allocation unit on your uncle's disk is 12288 bytes. I submit that this won't be a real problem until Apple's file system can handle more than 65K allocation units per volume. Marc Kaufman (kaufman@polya.stanford.edu)