Two negations problem
Mike Patterson
mpatters at cs.uwaterloo.ca
Fri Sep 5 12:38:33 UTC 2003
Bill Moran wrote:
> Roubíček Zdeněk (PragoNet) wrote:
>
>> Hello DOCs
>>
>> On the FreeBSD web at
>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/formatting-media/x221.html
>>
>
> > at the very end you can read:
>
>>
>> :It should be at least 128 kB, and it should not be not be a power of 2.
>>
>> It sounds strange in english and I am not sure if this is correct. I
>> believe
>
> > what the author of this document was trying to say is:
>
>>
>> :It should be at least 128 kB, and it should be a power of 2.
>>
>> Correct me if I'm wrong.
>
>
> The handbook obviously has a typo in it, but the statement should be:
>
> "It should be at least 128 kB, and it should not be a power of 2."
>
> Look at the example, which uses a stripe size of 273.
Then since 128kb obviously _is_ a power of two, perhaps the wording
should be changed to "It should be greater than 128kb, and should not be
a power of 2." ?
Mike
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