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Date:      Wed, 14 Feb 2001 13:41:30 +1100 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc:        Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sparse core dumps
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102141336490.1018-100000@besplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <xzpsnliy9h4.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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On 13 Feb 2001, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:

> Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> writes:
> > Probably it should just use getpagesize() to decide what block size to
> > use.
> 
> Why not just hardcode PAGE_SIZE like I did? An incorrect value will
> still work, just slightly less efficiently. Empirical tests show that
> as long as you stick to reasonable values, the block size doesn't
> affect disk usage much.

One reason is that it is a bug for PAGE_SIZE to be visible to applications.

Bruce



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