Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!nuchat!sugar!peter
From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: OS features
Message-ID: <1287@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 20 Dec 87 13:54:05 GMT
References: <561@amethyst.ma.arizona.edu>
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In article <561@amethyst.ma.arizona.edu>, chris@spock (Chris Ott) writes:
>      One of the features of AOS/VS (Data General) that I like is its
> variable element size. For example, if a file's element size is 10 blocks,
> the file will grow in chunks of 10 blocks at a time.

RSX 11 supports this. It's called the extend size. It's more convenient
than the system you describes because you can also truncate the file down
to the real size when disk space gets short.
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