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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: /usr/spool/news on multiple disks
Message-ID: <3146@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 7 Apr 90 21:59:24 GMT
References: <10544@netcom.UUCP> <SCOTT.90Apr6083757@gr375.grlab.UUCP>
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>> 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)

...which means you probably have a BSD-flavored file system.

The V7 file system that System III and System V, among other systems,
use stores inumbers in directory entries as 16-bit quantities (unless
you have "unsigned short"s that aren't 16 bits long, or something odd
like that).  Thus, you're limited to 65535 inodes.

The BSD file system that other systems - including System V Release 4 -
use stores them as 32-bit quantities.