feedme java project

is free software, licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, that feeds/imports media from anywhere to xbox360 media center extenders, ipods, web servers, file servers, etc. using Java.

Please read the license here.

Wednesday, September 5, 2007

cluster sizes

Each operating system has its own terminology;
Microsoft uses cluster,
Apple uses allocation block.

Operating system
(file system type)

Disk size

<256mb

up to 512MB

up to 1GB

up to 2GB

up to 8GB

up to 16GB

> 16GB

DOS & Windows 95
(FAT16)

4K

8K

16K

32K

N/A
(FAT16 can't handle drives > 4GB)

Win95 OSR2 & Win98
(FAT32)

N/A

4K

8K

16K or 32K

Windows NT
(NTFS)

0.5K to 64K
(0.5K to 4K clusters are most common)

MacOS pre-8.1
(HFS)

0.5K - 4K

4.5K - 8K

8.5K - 16K

16.5K - 32K

N/A
(HFS can't handle disks > 2GB)

MacOS 8.1 and later
(HFS+)

0.5K

1K

2K

Default is 4K; user-selectable up to 4K

CD-ROM, 650MB
(ISO 9660)

always 2K

DVD-ROM
(UDF)

always 2K

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