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Date:      Wed, 29 Nov 1995 09:59:06 -0500
From:      "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Recent changes to `dump'
Message-ID:  <9511291459.AA05869@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199511282245.OAA24433@ref.tfs.com>
References:  <9511281946.AA04068@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> <199511282245.OAA24433@ref.tfs.com>

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<<On Tue, 28 Nov 1995 14:45:24 -0800 (PST), Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com> said:

> I understand your point, but I also see why it changed..
> I often wonder "Is that DISK blocks or Tape Blocks?"
> (I don't use Dump that often)

Blocks are blocks.  (I think it's FFS's usage of the word `block' for
a 8192-byte chunk that is broken.  Before the Berkeley filesystem
work, a block was universally 512 bytes in UNIX-land.)

-GAWollman

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