From owner-cvs-lib Fri May 8 06:12:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA18818 for cvs-lib-outgoing; Fri, 8 May 1998 06:12:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-lib) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [195.8.129.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA18720; Fri, 8 May 1998 06:11:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA02553; Fri, 8 May 1998 15:10:59 +0200 (CEST) To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ), Julian Elischer , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-lib@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libftpio ftpio.c In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 08 May 1998 05:35:19 PDT." <20694.894630919@time.cdrom.com> Date: Fri, 08 May 1998 15:10:59 +0200 Message-ID: <2551.894633059@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-lib@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <20694.894630919@time.cdrom.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes: >> Which brings me to another question - is it really necessary to split >> up the distribution into 240 kB fragments? 720 kB or 1440 kB fragments >> I could understand, but 240 kB? And for a network or CD installation, >> it isn't really necessary to split it up at all, is it? > >No, not really, not anymore anyway. I'd be just as happy to see us go >to a larger fragment size if it doesn't screw up the floppy folk too >much (don't forget - they need to stick the foo.inf file on the very >first floppy, so it can't be exactly 1.44MB in size or even relatively >close given what's taken for FS overhead). As much as I'd like to >kill the floppy installation entirely (it penalizes _all_ the other >installation types by enforcing this kind of multi-piece braindamage), >I don't think we can get away with that yet. The solution could be to distribute a tool to make floppy-sized chunks out of a big file... -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." "ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a $20K state-of-the-art, 3D, hi-res color terminal