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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Could someone explain what the cluster size is exactly.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I am guessing it is an allocation size (i.e. how much space
gets allocated at one time), but that is just my guess. Filesystem performance
appears to improve with a larger cluster size set, suggesting that setting a
larger cluster size causes few locks on the filesystem during a write.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'>Bus-Tech, Inc.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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