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Subject: Re: 4.3BSD conversion question ...
Message-ID: <2307@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Date: Sun, 12-Apr-87 02:58:23 EST
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Posted: Sun Apr 12 02:58:23 1987
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References: <6810@brl-adm.ARPA> <8371@tekecs.TEK.COM>
Organization: California Institute of Technology
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Summary: disk controllers

In article <8371@tekecs.TEK.COM>, snoopy@doghouse.gwd.tek.com (Snoopy) writes:
> My question is WHY does fsck (or anything else) care whether the
> directory is a multiple of 512?

Some disk controllers (Xylogics) can only do I/O in units of whole sectors.

Don Speck   speck@vlsi.caltech.edu  {seismo,rutgers,ames}!cit-vax!speck