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From: sow@eru.mt.luth.se (Sven-Ove Westberg)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.admin,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Why are news articles separate files? (lack of inodes)
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Date: 28 Aug 88 13:08:09 GMT
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In article <1988Aug26.160040.22326@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
|In article <471@icus.UUCP> lenny@icus.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano) writes:
|
|Aside from inode conservation, exactly what is the win in this?  We could
|not see any in particular.  Our solution to the inode problem is to have
|plenty of inodes -- they are not expensive.  Performance was THE big issue
|with us, and the 3.0 crew aren't ignoring it either.

I don't agree with you. The new discs has a lot of heads and sectors
on each cylinder. I recently tried to create a news partion on a disc
and I can't get as much inodes I want. Mkfs on a Sun says that the
number of cyl/group should be a multiple of 8 an it is a limitation
of maximum 2048 inodes/cyl group. So inodes will be the limiting factor
in the future not the diskspace.

I don meant that 3.0 should work with a database. This must be
fixed in the operating system.

Sven-Ove Westberg, CAD, University of Lulea, S-951 87 Lulea, Sweden.
Internet: sow@cad.luth.se