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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newsrelay.netins.net!solaris.cc.vt.edu!news.bluesky.net!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Okay, I give up. Date: 8 Apr 1996 10:08:13 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4kaoid$4ek@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <199603271928.LAA25885@kithrup.com> <Pine.BSI.3.91.960328154736.6597A-100000@cais.cais.com> <4k1fmp$krb@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4k4i2q$4dd@news2.cais.com> <4k5ulj$167@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4k9uj5$pom@news2.cais.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 mcgraw@cais.cais.com (Michael Curry) writes: > : So now, *we* are already ``tainted'' in that we know what a partition > : is, how the disk is subdivided etc. Since you seem to have just > : climbed up this hill, how about submitting a different explanation for > : it? Either, make the man page clearer, or submit an entry for the FAQ > : or handbook? You are *most* welcome! > > > Okay. Would you happen to know where a full-text version of "A Fast File > System for UNIX" might be found, on-line? This trail is fraught with peril. I dunno why you need it for that task, but just in case, you can find it as /usr/share/doc/smm/05.fastfs/paper.ascii.gz. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)