Re: gawk or nawk?

From: Wolfgang S. Rupprecht (wolfgang+gnus20031027T082425_at_dailyplanet.dontspam.wsrcc.com)
Date: 10/27/03 

Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 16:32:12 GMT

> Are there any plans for support for (removable media) hard disks having
> sector size other than the normal 512 bytes? I am thinking in particular of
> the Fujitsu DynaMO, where the newer, higher-capacity disks have sector size
> 2048 bytes. Urgent? Low-priority?

There is also a need for a 32k block size for dvd+rw media. Dvd+rw is
a true random access disk for both random reads and random writes. If
it weren't for blocksize issues one could (in theory) use it as normal
hard disk.

-wolfgang 

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