On Wed, 7 Aug 2002 at 3:09pm, John Koenig wrote

> I am curious about the chunksize parameter...
> what are some reasons (policies) one would want (use) to tune this parameter?

The main purpose of chunksize was/is to get around the 2GB filesize 
limits some OSs had/have.  1GB is a fine number -- the parameter does not 
affect performance.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University