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I really don't understand why block size is 512 by default. It should really be 1 by default.

Except for someone with an ancient hard disk who thinks in blocks instead of (mega, giga, etc...)bytes, who ever needs or wants that?

512 byte blocks for ls is specified by POSIX. That would probably be a painful change now.

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