[KLUG Hardware] Re: Join "HARDWARE" for "endian/alignment" -- word size != bytealignment, state machines ...

[Bryan J. Smith]

Quoting Jeremy Leonard <lists@elite4god.com>:
> So it's like cluster size on a disk. 4k cluster size, 2k file=4k used
> on disk?

First off, "cluster" = "FAT-centric" terminology.  We're in a Linux world, so
"block, fragment and inode" are more appropriate.  ;-p

While you can think of "page size" as something like a "disk block," they are
involved with large block date transfers, not individual data addressing and
relative issues like byte alignment.

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