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From: HBO043%DJUKFA11.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Christoph van Wuellen)
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Subject: Re: Better performance for 68K based minix?
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Date: 23 Apr 91 10:05:46 GMT
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This hack is again illegal.
It is restricted to applications which only do I/O in multiples of
the disk sector size.
If you read, e.g. 1 byte from a disk file, you actually read a whole
block, and this has to be buffered somewhere.

C.v.W.