Two negations problem

Bill Moran wmoran at potentialtech.com
Fri Sep 5 12:33:08 UTC 2003


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.

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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