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Re: CVS commit: src/distrib/i386/floppies



On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 08:39:05AM -0500, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> On Dec 18,  8:15am, david%l8s.co.uk@localhost (David Laight) wrote:
> -- Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/distrib/i386/floppies
> 
> | > In any case, it's seems like a trivial issue to worry about an extra
> | > 20 seconds in writing the last floppy when it takes so long to boot
> | > from the damn things anyway.
> | 
> | Why does it take 20 seconds to write 1 sector?
> 
> Why is it one sector?

Because the file can be sparse.


        David

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