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From: jamesd@techbook.com (James Deibele)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: i-nodes and Cnews
Message-ID: <1991Apr7.194503.22015@techbook.com>
Date: 7 Apr 91 19:45:03 GMT
Reply-To: jamesd@techbook.com (James Deibele)
Organization: TECHbooks - Beaverton, Oregon - Public Access Unix
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We'd like to start retaining news for a longer time.  The problem is that
we're running System V R3.2 and the i-node limit for a file-system seems
to be locked around 64K.  I can set higher values, but they don't work.
I've heard that people get around this by patching Cnews so that it will 
recognize directories on different file-systems.

Is there a way of handling this that is more generally accepted than others?
Does it make a difference if the file-system is mounted via NFS?  

I'd think other people would be having problems with this too.  When I first
started out just over a year ago, I had 15 days of news.  Due in part to other
files and directories on /usr, but also to the increased flow, I've cut back
a day about every other month.  I'd really like to get back to about two weeks
(well, with the obligatory knock on alt.romance.chat) worth of news.

Thanks for any help.

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