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From: bedney@monolith.lanl.gov (William J. Edney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: 2.1 BuildDisk
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Date: 12 Jun 91 18:10:09 GMT
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In article <1705@toaster.SFSU.EDU> eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) writes:
> The most common things one might want to tweak are cylinders-per-
> group and bytes-per-inode.  You have to ask yourself what you're
> going to be using that second partition for--if it's something
> like a news spool, you're going to want to warp things quite a
> bit to accomodate a large number of mostly small files with high
> turnover.

Hmmm. Well, I'm mainly using the clients partition (which I made very small) to  
help people with NeXTstations boot over a "mini-net" that I set up and install  
their software after they've trashed their hard disk (this has happened  
twice!). Do I need to tweak or are the NeXT defaults OK??
--
- Bill Edney
- Los Alamos National Laboratory

"I don't speak for my employer and they don't speak for me. Kind of a nice  
arrangement."