in reply to Portability of Large read Lengths

Tell him he's talking out of his ... misunderstanding. 512 is a minimum, not a maximum. In any case, the possibility that an option might nt be usable with other than the default on some obscure ancient system somewhere is no reason not to provide the option for use on the majority of systems where it would be beneficial.

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