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- From: rxxgpf@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Greg Farrelly)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.encore
- Subject: Re: More inodes for Multimax System V filesystem
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.142548.20312@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 19:25:48 GMT
- References: <Brx3DF.5tz@fiu.edu>
- Organization: RMIT Computer Centre, Melbourne Australia.
- Lines: 41
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- ibarrac@kzin.fiu.edu (Carlos A. Ibarra) writes:
-
- >I installed C-news on our Encore Multimax with 14 ns32K processors running
- >System V R2.4.1. It seems to run pretty fast. The nntpd also runs quite
- >nicely, giving us much better access times to articles than the previous
- >news server machine (a Sun 3/80).
-
- >However, I have found one serious flaw. I can't seem to make a filesystem
- >with more than 65536 inodes. We have a 400 Mb disk which gets half full and
- >then runs out of inodes. This is true for System V and BSD type filesystems.
- >Even for virtual partitions (made of more than one partition) this limit
- >seems to hold!
-
- >I think there must be some way of circumventing this ridiculous limitation.
- >Otherwise I will be forced to split the newsgroups into several partitions in
- >a totally artificial, inefficient and unsatisfactory way.
-
- >Does anyone know how to create a filesystem on this machine running System V
- >with more than 2^16 inodes.
-
- Join the club. I've been wondering how to get around this and figured that
- splitting the news system across several partitions would be close to a
- nightmare of biblical proportions.
-
- My intended solution was to NFS the news spool directory from a machine which
- did handle large amount of inodes. Hopefully, the transfer rates wouldn't
- clag out the machine. This leaves all the news control files and programs
- on the Encore.
-
-
- This probably doesn't help you. I'm just letting you know that you are not
- alone!
-
- >-- Carlos Ibarra
-
- see ya.
- Greg Farrelly
- --
- Greg Farrelly greg@rmit.edu.au
- RMIT Computer Centre. Phone: +61 3 660 3814
- & This sig. is brought to you by the letters "V" and "W' and the number 1.&
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