R
R. McCarty
While I wouldn't globally advocate changing from the default
4KByte cluster size, there are cases where it has it's advantages.
Read the following from NTFS.Com and note the comment from
the site...
http://www.ntfs.com/ntfs_optimization.htm
""The bigger the cluster size, the more disk space is wasted,
however, the performance is better.""
HOWEVER - You should not change the XP partition from 4K
or you'll loose the ability for compression and SP2 based XP
instances will NOT boot from a Non 4KByte cluster size. It's
not by design, but a flaw in the parsing of attributes that span file
records. At boot you'll likely see an I/O failure, if the Cluster size
has been changed from 4KBytes
4KByte cluster size, there are cases where it has it's advantages.
Read the following from NTFS.Com and note the comment from
the site...
http://www.ntfs.com/ntfs_optimization.htm
""The bigger the cluster size, the more disk space is wasted,
however, the performance is better.""
HOWEVER - You should not change the XP partition from 4K
or you'll loose the ability for compression and SP2 based XP
instances will NOT boot from a Non 4KByte cluster size. It's
not by design, but a flaw in the parsing of attributes that span file
records. At boot you'll likely see an I/O failure, if the Cluster size
has been changed from 4KBytes