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- Lines: 18
- Date:
Tue Apr 28 14:22:04 1998
- Orig file:
v2.1.98/linux/Documentation/filesystems/romfs.txt
- Orig date:
Wed Jul 23 10:38:24 1997
diff -u --recursive --new-file v2.1.98/linux/Documentation/filesystems/romfs.txt linux/Documentation/filesystems/romfs.txt
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
its mirrors, in the /pub/Linux/system/recovery/ directory.
As the name suggests, romfs could be also used (space-efficiently) on
-various read-only medias, like (E)EPROM disks if someone will have the
+various read-only media, like (E)EPROM disks if someone will have the
motivation.. :)
However, the main purpose of romfs is to have a very small kernel,
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@
inspector. After that, in the 3rd longword, it contains the number of
bytes accessible from the start of this filesystem. The 4th longword
is the checksum of the first 512 bytes (or the number of bytes
-accessible, whichever is smallest). The applied algorithm is the same
+accessible, whichever is smaller). The applied algorithm is the same
as in the AFFS filesystem, namely a simple sum of the longwords
(assuming bigendian quantities again). For details, please consult
the source. This algorithm was chosen because although it's not quite
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