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From: newton@cleese.apana.org.au (Mark Newton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: Mixing 4k and 8k filesystems
Date: 16 Nov 1993 23:25:02 +1030
Organization: cleese.apana.org.au public access UNIX
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In article <1993Nov15.230951.2578@sophia.smith.edu> jfieber@sophia.smith.edu (J Fieber) writes:
>In article <2c7nn4$3g5@cleese.apana.org.au>,
>Mark Newton <newton@cleese.apana.org.au> wrote:
>>I read about Bad Things (tm) that can occur if you mix 4k and 8k filesystems.
>
>Do tell more. I've never heard of these Bad Things (tm). I have
It was just something someone said in comp.os.386bsd.whatever about
a week ago - nothing concrete, and I can't remember who said it.
He was referring to the new buffer cache mechanism used by FreeBSD (which
I haven't had time to examine in detail yet)
- mark
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