Darren New wrote:
> 
> No, that's true. Big directories are searched linearly, and the free
> space needs to get scanned to find blocks. So if your disk is big and
> close to full, allocating a block can take a lot of I/O, or require you
> to hold the entire map in memory.
> 
> Fat-64 (aka exFAT) seems to be designed to address just these problems.

Maybe FAT some day will be designed for huge medias then :). I hope and
think they don't end up with just pumping up the address space (which
AFAIK pretty much is what they did with FAT-32).

> I suggest maybe "chkdsk /f" at the command line, schedule a scan, and
> reboot? :-)

That schedules the check for next reboot, and it was doing that already
;). Anyway, it crashed couple a days ago, which seems to have fixed the
problem :D.

-Aero

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