[Info-vax] Re; Spiralog, RMS Journaling (was Re: FREESPADRIFT)

[Bob Koehler]

In article <nks2in$3gn$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
> 
> No it is not the number of bytes written in the file. As noted before, 
> the number of bytes written in the file can either be 1) The actual 
> number of bytes written in the file, which should then exclude padding 
> bytes at record ends, and padding bytes at block ends, or 2) the number 
> of bytes constituting the blocks written, since in the end, all writes 
> are in blocks.

   If I write "hellow world\n" on UNIX, I get a different number of
   bytes in the file than if I write it on Windows, even though my
   application wrote the same thing.

   So which one is the "number of bytes" _written_ "to the file"?