RE: Real size vs. Allocated size...

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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