Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 08:38:27 -0400 From: Mike Patterson <mpatters@cs.uwaterloo.ca> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: "FreeBSD-Docs \(el. adresa\)" <docs@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Two negations problem Message-ID: <3F5883C3.1000607@cs.uwaterloo.ca> In-Reply-To: <3F5881C3.2010206@potentialtech.com> References: <9256D57F598E6C41B288AA7DB94F29C90135CC3F@pgnmail1.pgnaplikace.cz> <3F5881C3.2010206@potentialtech.com>
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Bill Moran wrote: > Roubíček Zdeněk (PragoNet) wrote: > >> Hello DOCs >> >> On the FreeBSD web at >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/formatting-media/x221.html >> > > > at the very end you can read: > >> >> :It should be at least 128 kB, and it should not be not be a power of 2. >> >> It sounds strange in english and I am not sure if this is correct. I >> believe > > > what the author of this document was trying to say is: > >> >> :It should be at least 128 kB, and it should be a power of 2. >> >> Correct me if I'm wrong. > > > The handbook obviously has a typo in it, but the statement should be: > > "It should be at least 128 kB, and it should not be a power of 2." > > Look at the example, which uses a stripe size of 273. Then since 128kb obviously _is_ a power of two, perhaps the wording should be changed to "It should be greater than 128kb, and should not be a power of 2." ? Mike
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