Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 17:00:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/39101: Misplaced parenthesis in the FAQ? Message-ID: <200206120000.g5C007078990@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/39101; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org>
To: Dirk Gouders <gouders@et.bocholt.fh-ge.de>
Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: docs/39101: Misplaced parenthesis in the FAQ?
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 02:58:23 +0300
On 2002-06-10 05:17 -0700, Dirk Gouders wrote:
>
> Here is a diff:
>
> *** book.sgml 2002/05/30 21:11:55 1.445
> <para>The maximum size of a single ffs file is approximately 1G
> ! blocks (4TB) if the block size is 4K.</para>
> --- 2023,2029 ----
> <para>The maximum size of a single ffs file is approximately 1G
> ! blocks (4TB if the block size is 4K).</para>
I think the text is unclear, that is why it confused you. What about
this change that attempts to clarify the details a bit?
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RCS file: /home/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.447
diff -u -r1.447 book.sgml
--- book.sgml 11 Jun 2002 22:46:37 -0000 1.447
+++ book.sgml 11 Jun 2002 23:55:30 -0000
@@ -2026,8 +2026,8 @@
modifications filesystems with 4 terabytes are possible (and
exist).</para>
- <para>The maximum size of a single ffs file is approximately 1G
- blocks (4TB) if the block size is 4K.</para>
+ <para>When the block size is 4KB, the maximum size of a single ffs
+ file is approximately 4TB (4096 * 1GB blocks = 4TB).</para>
<table>
<title>Maximum file sizes</title>
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- Giorgos
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