Jim Meyering scripsit: > My reflex was to object. Reducing the default number of passes from > 25 to 1 seemed extreme. But after skimming through the link below, > it's hard to argue :-)
Still, there may be older disks hanging about. How about making the number of passes inversely proportional to the log of the size of the disk? That will smoothly accommodate older disks with wide recording tracks as well as newer ones with narrow tracks. -- How they ever reached any conclusion at all <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is starkly unknowable to the human mind. http://www.ccil.org/~cowan --"Backstage Lensman", Randall Garrett _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
