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From: Brad Huntting <huntting@glarp.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: You can tune a file system, but you can't tune a fish
Date: 12 Sep 1995 02:01:28 GMT
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robinson@dsto.defence.gov.au (Greg Robinson) wrote:
>In the nroff source for tunefs(8), there is this part:
>
>.\" Take this out and a Unix Demon will dog your steps from now until
>.\" the time_t's wrap around.
>.sp
>You can tune a file system, but you can't tune a fish.

Not suprisingly, AIX is one of the few BSD ports to remvove this quote...
Just goes ta' show ya,....  :)


brad