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From: aab@cichlid.com (Andy Burgess)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Why do you want a 512 byte block file system anyway?
Message-ID: <1990Nov19.232124.7802@cichlid.com>
Date: 19 Nov 90 23:21:24 GMT
References: <1990Nov18.182135.17954@scuzzy.in-berlin.de>
Reply-To: aab@cichlid.com (Andy Burgess)
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In article <1990Nov18.182135.17954@scuzzy.in-berlin.de> src@scuzzy.in-berlin.de (Heiko Blume) writes:
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>p.s.: i want a 512Byte filesystem for news, so speed is not an issue.

I just did an ls -l /usr/spool/news/comp/unix/sysv386 and I didn't see one
file less then 512 bytes long. Most (estimate 90%) were over 1024 bytes
long. Doesn't this mean 512 byte block buys you nothing?

Just wondering -- I'm no file system guru.

Andy



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