On Dec 19, 10:53pm, david@l8s.co.uk (David Laight) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/distrib/i386/floppies

| On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 08:39:05AM -0500, Christos Zoulas wrote:
| > On Dec 18,  8:15am, david@l8s.co.uk (David Laight) wrote:
| > -- Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/distrib/i386/floppies
| > 
| > | > In any case, it's seems like a trivial issue to worry about an extra
| > | > 20 seconds in writing the last floppy when it takes so long to boot
| > | > from the damn things anyway.
| > | 
| > | Why does it take 20 seconds to write 1 sector?
| > 
| > Why is it one sector?
| 
| Because the file can be sparse.

Tell that to the floppy :-)

christos