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From: urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Inode limitation of news software
Message-ID: <2oi[h2.k7a@smurf.sub.org>
Date: 6 Mar 91 20:18:21 GMT
References: <1991Mar03.111942.12658@gold.sub.org>
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG
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In news.software.b, article <1991Mar03.111942.12658@gold.sub.org>,
  root@gold.sub.org (Christian Seyb) writes:

< 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?
< 
Yes -- create multiple partitions on the winchester, and mount them where you
need them.
Symlinks help here, but you can get by without them if you allocate your
disk space carefully.
Don't forget to update spacefor so that it reports the minimum free space on
any of these partitions. (Putting in.coming somewhere else definitely helps
here; unfortunately it's hardcoded in too many places in C News. Use symlinks
if you have them.)

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