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Date:      Wed, 15 May 1996 10:17:59 -0700
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Robert Nordier <rnordier@iafrica.com>
Cc:        hans@flash.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD, Please help. 
Message-ID:  <199605151717.KAA14793@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 15 May 1996 14:12:40 %2B0200." <199605151212.OAA00401@eac.iafrica.com> 

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> > There are problems with the MSDOSFS that can cause corruption if FIPS has 
> > resized them (particularly, if the sector size changes).  
>                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> The sector size can't change.  What can - and should - change is the DOS
> cluster (allocation unit) size.
> 
> The problem is more what FIPS _doesn't_ change, than what it does.

You knew what I meant.  :-)  Sorry for the braino and thanks for the 
correction.



Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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