>> 64 Ki * 16 KiB = 1024 MiB. (The actual maximum amount of clusters is of
>> course slightly less than 64 Ki, to be exacting.) So you're off-by-one,
>> a "2 GB" file system cannot possibly be fully utilised with FAT16 at a
>> 16 KiB per cluster size.

> Ah, OK. My apologies.

> Off-by-one errors are of course one of the two hardest problems in
> computer science, 

Off-by-one errors are indeed hard to catch once you made them.
Off-by-a-factor-of-two is usually NOT hard to catch.

> along with cache invalidation and naming things.
other then throwing buzzwords around you heard about (without probably 
understanding what they mean) how does this help?

Tom



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