On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Ian Fry wrote:

> Over the weekend, I did a bit more playing around, and instead of dd-ing from
> the disk, I used /dev/zero. The same thing happened - I ended up with a file
> that was 24k too small when trying to create a 512k file. I'll do some more
> tests tonight with different sized files to see if there's any pattern to how
> much the files get truncated by.

I had a quick play, and what I seem to have got is that files get
truncated down to the next size that fits (n * 32k) + 8k, for integer n,
so you get 8k, 40k, 72k etc.  I don't know why, yet.

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Ben Harris                                                   <bjh21@netbsd.org>
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