From owner-cvs-all Tue Dec 17 12:58: 9 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5679C37B401; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 12:58:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3236F43EDE; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 12:58:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBHKvdk5025669; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 21:57:39 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Garrett Wollman Cc: Nate Lawson , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release Makefile From: phk@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 17 Dec 2002 15:44:18 EST." <200212172044.gBHKiIdX055035@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 21:57:39 +0100 Message-ID: <25668.1040158659@critter.freebsd.dk> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200212172044.gBHKiIdX055035@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Garrett Wollman writes: >< said: > >> It's hard to remember why that size was chosen. > >Not hard at all for those who were there. > >gcd(1200,1440) => 240 Well, you are correct in principle but not in detail :-) The chunk size is 235k not 240k. The reason was to make it possible to download 6 pieces to a 1.44M MS-DOS floppy and 5 pieces to a 1.2M MS-DOS floppy. Quite smart btw. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message