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Re: LILO question...



> Date:          Mon, 16 Sep 1996 09:48:53 +0200 (IST)
Hi!

> 
> There is no special reason. Or, rather, there is an excellent one - the 
> 512 number is "nice" while the 446 is "not nice". However, when one 
> _writes_ the MBR, one has to use the "not nice" number, so that is what 
> one finds in the docs. 

It also saves on entropy for while you won't save any disk space by 
saving 446 or 512 bytes, using "nice" numbers saves on entropy. Now 
today saving entropy might not seem like a big deal, but just wai a 
couple of billions of billions of years, and by then it'll be too 
late.

Eli Algranti <OR17367@elbit.co.il>

... 1024 buckets of bits on a wall 1024 buckets of bits