Newsgroups: news.software.b Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: /usr/spool/news on multiple disks Message-ID: <1990Apr7.213401.13312@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <10544@netcom.UUCP> Date: Sat, 7 Apr 90 21:34:01 GMT In article scott@grlab.UUCP (Scott Blachowicz) writes: >> I'm suprised more people haven't encounted this problem, when you can only >> put 60000 inodes on a single disk. >...when YOU can only put 60000 inodes... One of our file systems (we >run HP-UX) has "159744 total i-nodes". We're currently only using >~46000 of them, but I assume that many wouldn't get allocated if we >couldn't use them. There BETTER not be any 60000 limititation.... Old Unixes used 16-bit inode numbers in directory entries, making it inherently impossible to have more than 64K-1 inodes per filesystem. Most System Vs in the field still have this restriction. -- Apollo @ 8yrs: one small step.| Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology Space station @ 8yrs: .| uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu