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From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: dbz caveat
Message-ID: <1989Oct22.055453.26944@twwells.com>
Date: 22 Oct 89 05:54:53 GMT
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In article <688@wet.UUCP> epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott) writes:
: In article <1989Oct16.043012.2938@twwells.com> bill@twwells.com
:       (T. William Wells) writes:
: >You can figure that the newsfeed doubles in volume every year. This
: >might, now, be an overestimate, but you probably won't go wrong
: >making that assumption.
:
: Actually I can.

Um. What I meant is that it probably won't actually double each
year, though it seems to have a doubling time not much larger than
that. So, for the purpose of figuring the history file size,
assuming that it doubles once per year is conservative.

:                  SVR3 only has 16 bits of inodes!

This, on the other hand, is quite another kettle of fish.

:                                                    (I get to use
: 65488) The best I can do if things get really tight is to split
: off comp onto its own filesystem.

Urk. But if you gotta, you gotta.

:                                    Right now I have about 22,000
: inodes free (2 weeks, no inet groups).  If you're right, I better
: start making "imminent death" predictions.

I suspect that, before this becomes a real problem, someone will
have a better solution.

: Hopefully SVR4 will be out before that's necessary.

We can hope. And we can also hope that it won't be such a pig that
my poor little 16MHz '386 with 8M RAM can't run it.

:                                                      I really
: don't want to drop expiration below 2 weeks.

Fortunately for me, I am satisfied to expire at 3 days, since I
save any articles I'm interested in long before that time runs
out.

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