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From: dougp@ico.isc.com (Doug Pintar)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Still Waiting for Inode fixes, ZZZZZZZZ
Keywords: inode, UNIX, news
Message-ID: <1989Dec6.175837.556@ico.isc.com>
Date: 6 Dec 89 17:58:37 GMT
References: <434@telxon.UUCP> <[257bab4a:240.1]comp.unix.i386;1@nstar.UUCP> <1989Dec6.023924.1293@virtech.uucp>
Reply-To: dougp@ico.ISC.COM (Doug Pintar)
Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Boulder CO
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In article <1989Dec6.023924.1293@virtech.uucp> cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
>Wrong.  All you have to do is specify the number of inodes that you require
>on the mkfs command line.
>
>	mkfs /dev/rdsk/0s4 90000:90000
>
>Creates a 90,000 block file system with 90,000 inodes.

Almost right -- However, in System V filesystems, inodes are kept as
16-bit numbers, so you only get 64K of them...

This can get annoying if you're going to have lots of little files
(like news articles???).

DLP