[ale] Question about ftp clients

[Prasanna Subash]

Yes, thats right. Userland sees the files via the VFS( Virutal file system 
layer ). So they dont actually see it as blocks on Linux, just as files.

On Wednesday 12 June 2002 13:42, Mike Panetta wrote:
> I do not think it even can transfer the remainder of the block, as FTP
> programs do not access the disk in blocks, they access it in files.
> Unless the filesystem is broken, when you ask for a file you should only
> get that file and nothing else.  I guess someone could write the FTP
> client so that it could get the inode(s) the file uses and then find
> that partially used inode and transfer the remainder of what was there,
> but why?
>
> Of course I could be completely wrong ;)
>
> Mike
>
> On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 06:28, Michael Phillips wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 05:26:06PM -0400, James P. Kinney III spake 
thusly:
> > > Can you elaborate more on "slackspace"? Are you referring to half-used
> > > blocks on the hard drive? If so, no, they do not get transferred as
> > > they are a function of the file-system and formatting.
> >
> > Yes, slack space being the remainder of the block. I have always
> > understood that they did not get transferred, however I need to find some
> > documentation that states so. So far, google has not helped with finding
> > that information.
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > MIke
>
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