Block Size

David Bolen db3l at fitlinxx.com
Fri Nov 16 10:47:28 EST 2001


(I previously wrote)

> So your 30MB file ought to be using 16K blocks

Whoops - my fault for assuming 30MB was large enough and skipping the
calculations.  Turns out that really only yields about a 3K block size
with the adaptive algorithm.  So you can get significant reduction in
blocks by using a larger value
(16K for example).

-- David

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