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From: josevela@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx (Jose Angel Vela Avila)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,news.software.b,comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: IBM RS/6000 unsuitable for news
Message-ID: <3313@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx>
Date: 6 May 91 20:27:08 GMT
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Organization: ITESM. Campus Monterrey
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bglenden@colobus.cv.nrao.edu (Brian Glendenning) writes:

>In my opinion, IBM/RS6000 machines running AIX 3, are unsuitable for
>running usenet news because the filesystems only have 4k blocks, and
>thus waste a lot of space for usenet news. (Also, the number of inodes
>is fixed, which would be painful if we could drop the block size...).



  mmmm... How about News from remote server ???

 We have a 520 running News from our News server (Vax 6310) and everithing

  works ok !!


Jose A. Vela