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From: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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To: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>
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Subject: Re: Recent changes to `dump'
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<<On Tue, 28 Nov 1995 14:45:24 -0800 (PST), Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com> said:

> I understand your point, but I also see why it changed..
> I often wonder "Is that DISK blocks or Tape Blocks?"
> (I don't use Dump that often)

Blocks are blocks.  (I think it's FFS's usage of the word `block' for
a 8192-byte chunk that is broken.  Before the Berkeley filesystem
work, a block was universally 512 bytes in UNIX-land.)

-GAWollman

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