Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 23:27:39 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no, jkh@time.cdrom.com Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-lib@FreeBSD.ORG, julian@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libftpio ftpio.c Message-ID: <199805081327.XAA18001@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> 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? 235K. >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 Most floppies have size 1200K :-). 235K was carefully chosen for packing either 5 fragments on a 1200K floppy of 6 on a 1440K floppy, at least in tar format. Bruce
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