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From: jim@segue.segue.com (Jim Balter)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: mkfs and disk performance
Message-ID: <3313@segue.segue.com>
Date: 31 Aug 90 04:44:37 GMT
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In article <3295@segue.segue.com> jim@segue.segue.com (me) writes:
>That is neither precise nor correct.  <wrong explanation ...>

I must be suffering brain rot.  I was precise, but not correct.  I was
describing something, but it wasn't a mkfs parameter.  mkfs takes two numbers,
the interleave factor and the number of block per cylinder, which lets mkfs
interleave the blocks on each cylinder.  These numbers are used to initialize
the free space list.  My apologies for contributing to the abundance of false
information on the net.