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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: bde@zeta.org.au, fenner@parc.xerox.com
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/savecore savecore.c
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>But savecore could make a pretty good guess about the number of indirect blocks, right?
>	needed = kernelsize + dumpsize;
>	needed += fudge(needed);

Only if it knows too much about the file system :-).

Bruce