Subject: Re: nore on disk stats
To: Chris G Demetriou <Chris_G_Demetriou@BALVENIE.PDL.CS.CMU.EDU>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@SJ.Xenotropic.COM>
List: tech-install
Date: 11/14/1995 13:47:44
On Tue, 14 Nov 1995 16:38:26 -0500 
 Chris G Demetriou <Chris_G_Demetriou@BALVENIE.PDL.CS.CMU.EDU> wrote:

 > > 	struct disk_geom {
 > > 		u_int32_t	dg_ncyl;	/* cylinders per unit */
 > > 		u_int32_t	dg_ntrk;	/* tracks per cyl */
 > > 		u_int32_t	dg_nblk;	/* blocks per unit */
 > > 		u_int32_t	dg_blksz;	/* bytes per block */
 > > 	};
 > 
 > why use fixed-size types, if it's not going to live on disk?

I guess there's no real reason to ... just habit, I guess.  Comes from 
having Alphas and i386s around ;-)

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