fluster

n : a disposition that is confused or nervous and upset [syn: {perturbation}]

v 1: be flustered; behave in a confused manner

2: cause to be flustered or consternated

cluster

An elementary unit of allocation of a disk made

up of one or more physical {blocks}.

A {file} is made up of a whole number of possibly

non-contiguous clusters. The cluster size is a tradeoff

between space efficiency (the bigger is the cluster, the

bigger is on the average the wasted space at the end of each

file) and the length of the {FAT}.

(1996-11-04)