Greetings, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin! > I don't know how Windows stores short files,
By Windows I Think you did mean NTFS. Then yes, file data for certain short values is stored directly in $MFT. This is not specifically file contents, and even if a file content is just 1 byte, not necessarily it will be stored in $MFT. It all depends on the entire size of file metadata. If it does not exceed some-under-1K in total, then file data may be stored in $MFT as well. > maybe they are part of the metadata up to a point or some such. However, as > soon as you raise the size over a given point, the *allocation size* will be > rounded up to 64K and from that point on, it will be in 64K chunks. Also > sparsifying and desparsifying of blocks only works in 64K chunks. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Monday, December 4, 2023 18:56:37 Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple