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- From: Guy_Dawson@transarc.com
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: Dumb Question: Why 512 byte block?
- Message-ID: <sfATJvL0BwwOIJBUcl@transarc.com>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 05:59:55 GMT
- Article-I.D.: transarc.sfATJvL0BwwOIJBUcl
- References: <1992Dec18.005050.20594@decuac.dec.com>
- Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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- In-Reply-To: <1992Dec18.005050.20594@decuac.dec.com>
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- >Why is everything in 1/2 k block instead the BSD standard of 1024 byte blocks?
- >Yes, I know there is a '-k' switch, but it seems to me it should be
- >the otherway around.
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- I think this was due the the fact the the VAX on which BSD was developed
- for a long time based most things on 512byte pages - espically its
- virtual memory system,
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