From: Martin Stromberg <Martin DOT Stromberg AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se>
Message-Id: <199911160853.JAA16296@propus.lu.erisoft.se>
Subject: Re: First alpha symlink patch
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 09:53:37 +0100 (MET)
In-Reply-To: <38303105.4DB4F377@softhome.net> from "Laurynas Biveinis" at Nov 15, 99 06:12:53 pm
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Laurynas said:
> Sounds good. So let the symlinks be 376 bytes in size (just not the
> power of 2).

Why is power of two bad? Why 376 bytes?

Wouldn't it be good to let symlinks be, say, 512 (or 511 if power of
two isn't good), the smallest cluster size if I'm not mistaken, if we
need some more space later.


Oldfield, Turbular Bells III,

							MartinS