Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!botter!star!ast
From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: BUNDLE for Minix (was: Backup for HD asked)
Message-ID: <665@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 26 Feb 88 20:20:22 GMT
References: <46400003@ztivax.UUCP> <10579@santra.UUCP>
Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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In article <10579@santra.UUCP> nispa@hutcs.hut.fi (Tapani Lindgren) writes:
>In article <46400003@ztivax.UUCP> freizeit@ztivax writes:
>We could'n't make pipes work with block sizes larger than 7K.
>Is there a BUG in Minix? (No, that would be impossible:-)
>If somebody has a fix, please let the world know!

It is not a bug.  It is a feature.  Having pipes larger than
7K would mean not using "small" files, but files with indirect blocks as pipe
inodes.  V7 does not allow this; neither does MINIX.  There is no easy fix.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)