Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!csustan!polyslo!csun!sdcrdcf!trwrb!scgvaxd!stb!michael
From: michael@stb.UUCP (Michael)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Disk allocation error? (Xenix 3.1.2, 16/6000)
Message-ID: <10087@stb.UUCP>
Date: 29 Feb 88 02:03:33 GMT
Reply-To: michael@stb.UUCP (Michael)
Organization: STB BBS, La, Ca, USA, 90402, (213) 459-7231
Lines: 15

What's going on here? I just checked several large files, and find that
the number of blocks allocated to them (as reported by 'lc -s') does
not agree with number of bytes/512. Instead anywhere from 3 to 12 extra
blocks are allocated to the file.

Is this an error in lc, or is the kernel trying (and failing) to do
preallocation? If the latter, then 
	A) Why isn't it documented
	B) Why isn't is configurable (or at least disableable)

				Michael
-- 
: Michael Gersten	<best> => uunet!ucla-an.ANES\ 
:				 ihnp4!hermix!ucla-an!remsit!stb!michael
:				sdcsvax!crash!gryphon!denwa!stb!michael
: "A hacker lives forever, but not so his free time"