RE: Real size vs. Allocated size... -- MIDRANGE-L

Kenneth, the sizes you gave

Size of object data in bytes . . . . . :   33936
Allocated size of object . . . . . . . :   65536

show that the object is just over half of the allocated size. This suggests a 32k block. Of course, I think a 32K block size is extravagant. But you can find out what a particular file system uses for block size, etc., with the statvfs()--Get File System Information API. The information includes block sizes of various types.

HTH
Vern

At 11:16 AM 1/24/2005, you wrote:

>In your case, the "allocated" size is probably the _minimum_ amount of
>storage than can be allocated for the IFS object...it is probably the
>"cluster size" on the disk, or the minimum number of sectors that must be
>allocated for an IFS object.

I thought this was a possibility .... However, not being able to change this
in any way has resulted in us having to purchase almost twice the disk we
really need! And about 1/2 of it will always be empty...

I wonder if I could have created a files system in QOpenSys with different
fill allocation parameters???? Hmmm, does anyone know if something like that
is possible?

Kenneth

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