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From: gdonl@gv.ssi1.com (Don Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: 512 or 1024K blocks?
Date: 2 Sep 1994 04:31:37 GMT
Organization: Silicon Systems, Nevada City CA
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In article <33v6ef$s1s@agate.berkeley.edu>,
Edward Wang <edward@priam.CS.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:
>I assume you mean 8k/1k vs. 4k/512 filesystems.
>It's not at all clear that 4k/512 actually saves you space.

A 4K/512 filesystem is definitely a winner for my news spool (with
all those little files).  I use 8K/1K everything else.
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Don "Truck" Lewis                                       Silicon Systems
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