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From: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Unix from a snob's point of view!
Message-ID: <91@hadron.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 27-Nov-85 01:14:21 EST
Article-I.D.: hadron.91
Posted: Wed Nov 27 01:14:21 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 29-Nov-85 21:19:03 EST
References: <298@weitek.UUCP> <228@polaris.UUCP> <942@wcom.UUCP>
Reply-To: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Organization: Hadron, Inc., Fairfax, VA
Lines: 9
Keywords: 512, 1k, 2k
Summary: blowing steam: physical/logical block sizes

In article <942@wcom.UUCP> frodo@wcom.UUCP (James Scardelis) writes:
>	On System V, the physical block sizes are 1K.

Most releases of System V allow either 512 or 1024 or both LOGICAL
block sizes on a per-file system basis.  Physical block sizes are
determined by hardware:  usually 512, sometimes 128 or 256.
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	Joe Yao		hadron!jsdy@seismo.{CSS.GOV,ARPA,UUCP}