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From: dpz@action.rutgers.edu (David Paul Zimmerman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: setting ipg > MAXIPG on a filesystem?
Keywords: maximum inodes filesystem mkfs
Message-ID: <Dec.26.20.35.45.1990.2094@action.rutgers.edu>
Date: 27 Dec 90 01:35:46 GMT
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What we generally do here is to skirt the problem by mkfs'ing a smaller number
of cylinders per cylinder group (-c flag to mkfs on SunOS).  For example, if
the standard is 16 cpg, we use 12 or 8 or even 4.  (My own news spool system
uses 12.)

						David
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David Paul Zimmerman                                     dpz@dimacs.rutgers.edu
Systems Programmer						    rutgers!dpz
Rutgers Univ Center for Discrete Math and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS)