HP's version of FFS is not plain FFS. Without access to HP-UX internals, it's hard to say what the file system intends to do. You need to be aware that the file system allocates one indirect data block every 16 Mbytes or so (or whatever the number of block addresses in an indirect block). This could cause additional "jumps" in the file allocation. Regarding the small-file limit: when I did some measurements with smaller files on 4.4BSD I found that the file system behaved as expected: 12 direct data blocks, one indirect block with data block addresses, a contiguous run of data blocks, one doubly-indirect block, one indirect block, another contiguous run of data blocks, and so on. Knut Eckstein: > Like with 10.20, I tested unrm on 11.00 on a file > 2GB. While waiting > almost three hours during the unrm run, I thought I should analyze the That is incredibly slow. unrm runs at the same speed as dd. Wietse ----------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided by the SecurityFocus ARIS analyzer service. For more information on this free incident handling, management and tracking system please see: http://aris.securityfocus.com
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