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From: Nick Andrew
Date: Sun, 04 May 1997 00:00

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In <5khgs9$9b0@news.mel.aone.net.au> daveney@altus.speednet.com.au (Graham Daveney) writes:

>For example, using the above hypothetical situation. If I set the "bytes-per-inode"
>value to 2048, and then I filled the partition with millions of 1024 byte files,
>then I would actually run out of inodes first before I ran out of disk space.

That's correct. Since you intend to use this as a news disk it might be
instructive for you to get some figures from actual news partitions.

I have 6G for news and run 4096 bytes/inode. I have heaps of inodes
free (32% in use) (but space is 95% used), so you could safely run
8192 bytes/inode.

Nick.
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From: nick@zeta.org.au (Nick Andrew)
Subject: Re: Question on inodes
Date: 1997/05/04
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