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From: bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org (Christoph Badura)
Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD?
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 1994 15:22:55 GMT
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References: <2seo29$5c5@vishnu.jussieu.fr> <FRwaNc2w165w@oasys.pc.my>
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In <FRwaNc2w165w@oasys.pc.my> othman@oasys.pc.my (Othman Ahmad) writes:

>The unique thing about BSD FFS(Fast File System) is the presense of 2 block
>sizes. A small chunk size but large block sizes. 16K block size with chunk
>size of 1 K is the default.
The current default is 8K blocks and 1K fragments.  And you can't have
more than 8 fragments per block in the current implementation, i.e.
16K/1K is not possible.
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