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From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Our friend, the GMT date.
Message-ID: <1989Dec7.152954.8715@twwells.com>
Date: 7 Dec 89 15:29:54 GMT
References: <4364@helios.ee.lbl.gov> <14810@well.UUCP> <1989Dec3.210413.27043@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu> <56239@looking.on.ca> <1989Dec5.142032.7706@talos.uucp> <1601@intercon.com> <1989Dec6.031329.13569@utzoo.uucp> <57592@looking.on.ca>
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In article <57592@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:
: Henry's probably right, although it's a close call.  The first reason you
: might think of for switching is saving disk space.  Turns out you waste
: only about 16% of your disk space on 1K blocking, so that isn't enough
: reason to switch.  (Of course on 1 4K block system, it's different, the
: wastage approaches 40%, I would guess.)

Some numbers from my system:

	blocksz % over actual space used
	512     12%
	1K      22%
	2K      44%
	4K      115%

Average article size: 2246 bytes.

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