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Linux System Programming 学习笔记

20. March 2009 GNU/Linux 0 Comments

the sector is the smallest addressable unit on a block deviice.
the block is the smallest addressable unit on a file system.
the page size is the smallest unit addressable by the memory management unit.

sector = 512 bytes
block = sector * 2(power 0, 1, 4) = 512 bytes, 1 KB, 4 KB
sector <= block <= page size
process

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