On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 10:39:20AM +1000, Malcolm V wrote: > Does anyone else get confused by the unclear usage of the term "block"?
Only all the time :-) > Given that a *nix block is always 512 bytes (or is it?) and a disk block is a > variety of sizes. Most documentation uses the generic term block without any > effort to indicate which of the two they are talking about. Then there's tape blocks (varying in size) and application blocks (e.g. Oracle) which are an internal data structure thing unrelated to the size of a read or write. Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
