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From: root@gold.sub.org (Christian Seyb)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Inode limitation of news software
Message-ID: <1991Mar03.111942.12658@gold.sub.org>
Date: 3 Mar 91 11:19:42 GMT
Organization: Unix Mailbox Baldham
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Winchester drives are getting cheaper and cheaper. This makes it very
easy to have a large enough partition to hold news for several weeks.
This is not possible, due to the limitation of <64k inodes (at least on
sysv).

Is there anybody out there who has solved this problem?

Having a database for every newsgroup would reduce the number of files
to a managable quantity. Of course, the newsreaders and the utilities
need to understand this as well. Has this been implemented so far?

regards Christian
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