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From: whh@PacBell.COM (Wilson Heydt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: What kind of things would you want in the GNU OS
Summary: *sectors*????
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Date: 26 Jun 89 23:40:22 GMT
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In article <20100@adm.BRL.MIL>, rbj@dsys.ncsl.nist.gov (Root Boy Jim) writes:
> ? From: Paul Hite <paul@prcrs.uucp>
> 
> ? The paper is titled "A UNIX System Implementation for System/370"  by
> ? W. A. Felton, G. L. Miller and J. M. Milner.  And, Jack, the paper is
> ? dated Jan 9, 1984.
> 
> Hmmm. That would seem to imply an inode size of 512, with 20 bytes of
> mode/uid/gid/links/size/etc info. Exactly one sector.

Except for one *minor* thing--the drives on System/370s (and 360s, for
that matter) don't *have* sectors.  They're variable (or free) format.

Be careful about system-provincialism.

     --Hal

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