fair@Apple.COM (Erik E. Fair) (06/26/90)
I cheated. When it came time to newfs a whole RP07 as /usr/spool/news,
I dropped the number of cylinders per cylinder group to bump up the
number of inodes.
However, the point is well taken.
In the referenced article, mathisen@dali.UUCP (Jaye Mathisen) writes:
I got some stuff in the mail, about the Epoch 1 Infinite
Storage Server, with combinations of Winchester storage, and
optical, that might work.
Actually, their design has this one small flaw (at least, for this
purpose): their inodes stay on the hard disk, so you don't have to keep
rewriting the WORM with updated inodes. We've owned serial #7 for about
a year or so. This same problem exists with the Cray migration software
that we use to backstop 30Gb of fast hard disk into a terabyte of tape
silo.vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul A Vixie) (07/01/90)
>> I cheated. When it came time to newfs a whole RP07 as /usr/spool/news, >> I dropped the number of cylinders per cylinder group to bump up the >> number of inodes. I'm already at 16 cylinders per group, which seems to be the minimum. However, Rick Adams suggested that I lie about other aspects of the disk geometry, so that what "newfs" thinks is a cylinder actually has fewer blocks in it. And, for the kicker, Henry Spencer reminded me that C News can deal with having /usr/spool/news split across multiple partitions. -- Paul Vixie DEC Western Research Lab <vixie@wrl.dec.com> Palo Alto, California ...!decwrl!vixie
henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) (07/01/90)
In article <VIXIE.90Jun30111849@volition.pa.dec.com> vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul A Vixie) writes: >And, for the kicker, Henry Spencer reminded me that C News can deal >with having /usr/spool/news split across multiple partitions. "Deal with" may be a slightly strong statement, as there are some rough edges when cross-postings cross partition boundaries, but yes, it can be done. -- "Either NFS must be scrapped or NFS | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology must be changed." -John K. Ousterhout | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
paul@devon.lns.pa.us (Paul Sutcliffe Jr.) (07/02/90)
vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul A Vixie) writes: > And, for the kicker, Henry Spencer reminded me that C News can deal > with having /usr/spool/news split across multiple partitions. But only if your UNIX supports symbolic links, no? - paul INTERNET: paul@devon.lns.pa.us | If life's a bitch, then UUCP: ...!rutgers!devon!paul | we must be her puppies.