On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:15:57 -0400, 98 Guy wrote:

File copy test - Windows 98

Conclusion / Comments:

Well, basically, I almost filled a 500 gb hard drive with a replicated
set of files that range in size from a few bytes to a few mb in size.
A grand total of over 3 million files spread across almost 200,000
directories. Windows was functional during and after this file-copy
process, and the system continues to boot and function normally.

If anyone out there is not satisfied that my test methodology was not
sufficient to correctly test win-98 for a file-count limitation or a
directory-size limitation that may arise given current modern large
hard drives available today, please speak up and describe an alternate
test method.

As a comment, I don't believe that creating a set of zero-byte files
will necessarily accomplish or test windows-98 with the same level of
"stress" as the test I describe here.

Time for a second opinion on this thread.
98Guy I think you have went out of your way to prove/disprove many
items about the 98 FS. Any more would be just a waste of time an
effort on your part. No matter what you do you will always find the
person or persons who will doubt the validity of what you have done or
the methodology used. They will offer alternate methods but will never
got to the lengths you have to prove or disprove a point.
Just tell them to F**K off and do their own testing or ignore
everything/anything you have done.

Art

PS I have always been told the problem of large number of clusters in
98 was due to the fact that on boot the FAT Table was read into memory
and would use up all available memory just to hold the FAT Table. If
this were true it seems that with your 500G test all available memory
would be used and there would be nothing left for programs. It also
seems that your boot times would be in minutes not seconds just to
read the FAT Table.