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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!news.mtu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!subnet.sub.net!flatlin!bad From: bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org (Christoph Badura) Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD? Date: Fri, 3 Jun 1994 15:22:55 GMT Message-ID: <Cqtuq8.2Ix@flatlin.ka.sub.org> References: <2seo29$5c5@vishnu.jussieu.fr> <FRwaNc2w165w@oasys.pc.my> Organization: Guru Systems/Funware Department Lines: 13 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. -- Christoph Badura bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org Home +49 721 606137 Work +49 228 445175 Es genuegt nicht, keine Gedanken zu haben; man muss auch unfaehig sein, sie auszudruecken. - Karl Kraus