Xref: utzoo news.sysadmin:3692 news.software.b:7683 comp.unix.aix:4942 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!dali.cs.montana.edu!caen!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!turnkey!jackv From: jackv@turnkey.tcc.com (Jack F. Vogel) Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,news.software.b,comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: IBM RS/6000 unsuitable for news Message-ID: <1991May07.160042.28634@turnkey.tcc.com> Date: 7 May 91 16:00:42 GMT References: Reply-To: jackv@turnkey.TCC.COM (Jack F. Vogel) Organization: Turnkey Computer Consultants, Westchester, CA Lines: 30 In article 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. Yes, unfortunately this is also the case with AIX on the PS/2 and 370. Here at Locus we keep news on a couple of 370 guests and it is a constant struggle to keep from running out of space but, since we have lots of 370 DASD around we live with it. One possibility struck me, since AIX Version 3 is a 'vnoded' filesystem (which, alas, AIX/370 isn't) I wouldn't think it would be that hard to provide a SysV 1K or FFS filesystem as an option. Has anyone out there in 6000 support thought about or considered this?? >(Also, the number of inodes >is fixed, which would be painful if we could drop the block size...). I have seen this said a couple of different times, is this literally true? You mean you can't choose the number of inodes when the filesystem is created?? This seems bizarre if true, but then I know nothing about JFS. Disclaimer: I don't speak for my employer. -- Jack F. Vogel jackv@locus.com AIX370 Technical Support - or - Locus Computing Corp. jackv@turnkey.TCC.COM