Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: tuning number of inodes for cnews
Message-ID: <1991Mar3.001647.18652@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1991Mar1.230651.4574@NPIRS.Purdue.EDU>
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 1991 00:16:47 GMT

In article <1991Mar1.230651.4574@NPIRS.Purdue.EDU> ramsey@NPIRS.Purdue.EDU (Ed Ramsey) writes:
>I was wondering if on a sparcstation 1+ running sunos 4.1.1 
>more inodes are needed (or would be useful) for the news spool
>directory than suninstall provides by default on a 100Mb partition. 
>
>I raise this questions because I was told "you must double the
>number of inodes in the news partition", but there is no mention of
>this topic in the cnews docs that I can find.

C News predates SunOS 4.x, and since most of our Suns are still running 3.5,
we don't have much real experience with the matter.  Utzoo, which keeps most
news four days, has about 90MB of news using about 40K inodes.
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