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From: bobm@pixel.convex.com
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Subject: Re: sources?
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Date: 14 Jan 91 19:23:52 GMT
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I said:
> > Wouldn't it be easier to change all the shorts to longs now?

Bruce replied:
> There is more to it than changing shorts to longs.  The i-nodes are
> packed quite efficiently into a disk block and i-nodes never span a disk
> block boundary.  Also, there is the issue of compatibility.

I didn't realize the 1.5 filesystem would be 1.3 compatible.  As Gilda
Radner used to say, "Nevermind."

					K<bob>