On 25Aug29:1101+0200, Radoslaw Skorupka wrote: > AFAIK the track overflow feature is no longer supported. For years. > Actually it is one of the things I have never met in real world but it was > mentioned in the documentation. Like CVOL. > > Regarding track overflow - does it mean the following? > 1. Block is being written to track. However the block is too long, so the > remaining part is written on another track. > 2. The tracks have to be consecutive (or not?) > 3. The block can occupy one, two or more tracks. Or only one or two? > 4. Track space after last part of the block cannot be used by any other > block, that means it remain unused. > > BTW: Is there any (historical) documentation about track overflow? Just > curious, obviously it has no practical meaning nowadays. ;-)
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