
Author: diego Date: Thu May 31 16:15:48 2007 New Revision: 495 Log: Improve confusing wording. Modified: docs/nut.txt Modified: docs/nut.txt ============================================================================== --- docs/nut.txt (original) +++ docs/nut.txt Thu May 31 16:15:48 2007 @@ -885,9 +885,9 @@ Headers may be repeated, but if they are together and repeated headers MUST be identical. Each set of repeated headers not at the beginning or end of the file SHOULD -be stored at the earliest possible position after 2^x where x is an integer -and the end of the file. So the headers may be repeated at 4102 if that is -the closest position after 2^12=4096 at which the headers can be placed. +be stored at the earliest possible position after 2^x where x is an integer. +So the headers may be repeated at 4102 if that is the closest position after +2^12=4096 at which the headers can be placed. Note: This allows an implementation reading the file to locate backup headers in O(log filesize) time as opposed to O(filesize).
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