In
<b6c1eb4364c30e47950e0f68ef65f4675d4e9...@proditmailbox1.us.syncsort.com>,
on 08/11/2014
   at 09:39 PM, "Blaicher, Christopher Y." <[email protected]>
said:

>From your response to Barry it seems you are saying the Binder 
>will write a 32K block and then write a short block on a track?  
>If it is doing that, then how is that any better than a 
>Half-track blocksize?

Because the total amount of data on the track will be greater, so that
Fetch can read fewer tracks.
 
-- 
     Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
     ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> 
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)

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