Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 4 Oct 2000 12:53:33 -0300 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Would you please help me? |
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On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Huang QingHua wrote:
> When I am studying source code.I can not understand the > relation between "reading a page from" and "reading a block from > disk".
A "page" is the hardware VM page size (usually 4kB or 8 kB)
A "block" is usually the size in which the filesystem allocates disk space (usually 1kB to 4kB).
regards,
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