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 -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant
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