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From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Small executables (was Re: 16mb minimum for next machines)
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Date: 4 May 91 11:13:22 GMT
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In article <N67786.91May4013238@lehtori.cc.tut.fi> n67786@cc.tut.fi (Tero Nieminen) writes:

   In article <650@rosie.NeXT.COM> sstreep@elvis (Sam Streeper) writes:

      No file on disk will ever be smaller than the sector (or perhaps
      cluster) size, even if it has very few "meaningful" bytes.

   Time for you to recheck the BSD fast file system internals, cause your
   statement does not hold.

Could you explain?  Wasn't he talking about internal fragmentation?
Inquiring minds want to know.

-Mike