Re: creating digital panos

["Gene F. Rhodes" <GFRhodes@xxxxxxxxxx>]

My point is; if I have enough RAM my hard drive just
sits there until I need to access or store a file.  I'm thru
trying to speed up my hard drive because  RAM
solved my problem.
Gene



Varró Norbert wrote:

> Sorry, all wrong.
> FAT32 actually slows down the HD. It solves two problems only: FAT16 is
> only good for up to 2 GB partitions and cluster size of 32 or 64k is
> generally wasting space too much. (you allocate file pieces of the size
> of cluster, so a 1K text file also needs 64k) That is not an issue with
> 200Megs picture files, actually is faster, 'cause smaller clusters means
> slower data flow also.
> The optimal swap file size is calculated by "mem size+16(?)Megs" So with
> 256 Megs you will eed around 300 Megs.
> I was also able to see a 150 meg photo, but if you try to modify it, it
> easily doubles file size (because undo-s).
> So more mem is better.
>
> Hope it helps
> Norbert
>

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