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From: Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net>
Subject: Re: docs/39101: Misplaced parenthesis in the FAQ?
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The following reply was made to PR docs/39101; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net>
To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: docs/39101: Misplaced parenthesis in the FAQ?
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 14:06:23 +0100

 On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 10:30:03AM -0700, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
 >  On 2002-06-12 08:31 +0100, Ceri Davies wrote:
 >  > On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 05:00:07PM -0700, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
 >  > >   
 >  > >  -          <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>
 >  > 
 >  > s/GB/G/
 >  
 >  Right.  This way it will match the style of the rest of this
 >  particular question/answer ;)
 
 Actually, I'd like to change my answer again if I may.
 Not so much on style grounds, but more to do with the placement of units really.
 
 It should actually be more like :
 
     4096B * 1G = 4TB
 
    (bytes   -    bytes)
 
 just as in :
 
     4096m * 1000 = 4096km
  
    (metres  -      meters)
 
 and :
 
        4096m / 10s = 40.96m/s
 
    (metres  seconds  metres per second)
 
 [sheesh, what a pedant - sorry]
 
 The proposed patch above makes it sound like the block size is 1GB !
 
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