Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!bacchus.pa.dec.com!vixie From: vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul A Vixie) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: netnews storage representation Message-ID: Date: 30 Jun 90 18:18:49 GMT References: <2076@dali> <42346@apple.Apple.COM> Sender: news@wrl.dec.com (News) Organization: DEC Western Research Lab Lines: 16 In-Reply-To: fair@Apple.COM's message of 26 Jun 90 08:11:55 GMT >> I cheated. When it came time to newfs a whole RP07 as /usr/spool/news, >> I dropped the number of cylinders per cylinder group to bump up the >> number of inodes. I'm already at 16 cylinders per group, which seems to be the minimum. However, Rick Adams suggested that I lie about other aspects of the disk geometry, so that what "newfs" thinks is a cylinder actually has fewer blocks in it. And, for the kicker, Henry Spencer reminded me that C News can deal with having /usr/spool/news split across multiple partitions. -- Paul Vixie DEC Western Research Lab Palo Alto, California ...!decwrl!vixie