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From: woerz@iaoobelix.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Size of NFS "block" (was Size of Sys - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 23-Jul-87 23:19:00 EDT
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> /***** iaoobelix:comp.unix.wiz / gvax!jqj /  9:27 pm  Jul 15, 1987*/
> Subject: Size of NFS "block" (was Size of SysV "block")
>
>
> Note that varying block sizes is particularly a problem in an NFS environment.
> When I do a "du", it reports sizes in blocks derived from a stat of the file
> ...

I looked at the manual of du on our suns and our VAX running vanilla
4.2BSD, they state clearly that du reports the size in kilobytes. I
think this has been necessary to change, since under 4.2BSD it is
possible to have different block sizes for different partitions on
one disk, i.e. we run /tmp as a seperate partition with a block size
of 8KB, while were running / with only 2KB blocks. This is mainly for
space and access speed considerations.
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