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From: alexis@panix.uucp (Alexis Rosen)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Inode limitation of news software
Message-ID: <1991Mar10.205041.10534@panix.uucp>
Date: 10 Mar 91 20:50:41 GMT
References: <1991Mar03.111942.12658@gold.sub.org> <2oi[h2.k7a@smurf.sub.org>
Organization: PANIX - Public Access Unix Systems of NY
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urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) writes:
>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.

I was under the impression that this would break crossreferencing, since
articles posted to multiple groups are stored as one file with multiple
hard links. Is C news clever enough to symlink when the groups are on
different partitions? If not, how can this work?

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Alexis Rosen
Owner/Sysadmin, PANIX Public Access Unix, NY
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