Path: utzoo!attcan!lsuc!ncrcan!ziebmef!cks
From: cks@ziebmef.uucp (Chris Siebenmann)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Usenet volume
Keywords: volume news
Message-ID: <1988Dec13.020718.11449@ziebmef.uucp>
Date: 13 Dec 88 07:07:17 GMT
References: <1995@van-bc.UUCP> <1275@vsi1.UUCP>
Reply-To: cks@ziebmef.UUCP (Chris Siebenmann)
Organization: Ziebmef Public Access Unix, Toronto, Ontario
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In article <1275@vsi1.UUCP> lmb@vsi1.UUCP (Larry Blair) writes:
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>Inodes are going to become a big issue.  Many systems, like our Sun, are
>particularly stingy with creating inodes.

 I suspect sites have already started to run out of inodes. We spent a
week here with 200 inodes free and more news wanting to come in (I
long ago wrote a program that blows off incoming uucico's if disk
blocks or inodes drop too low; this is why we had 200 instead of 0
inodes).

>I expect that there will be 50 responses to this posting, many with
>statements like, "I run with 20MB and 5,000 inodes."  Of course it is
>possible, but not with standard software and default expires.

 I suspect most everyone is running with non-standard expires by now.
What I hope we'll start seeing is twofold; news systems that are more
reliable when disks overflow, and utilities to choke things down and
keep them under control. Some programs are already out there, like
Cnews and Brad Templeton's space-based expiry system (I think he wrote
it; the article header seems to have vanished on my copy).

-- 
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