Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!apple!vsi1!lmb From: lmb@vsi1.UUCP (Larry Blair) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Usenet volume Keywords: volume news Message-ID: <1279@vsi1.UUCP> Date: 7 Dec 88 18:03:46 GMT References: <1995@van-bc.UUCP> <1275@vsi1.UUCP> <2707@epimass.EPI.COM> Reply-To: lmb@vsi1.UUCP (Larry Blair) Organization: VICOM Systems Inc., San Jose, CA Lines: 19 In article <2707@epimass.EPI.COM> jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) writes: =In article <1275@vsi1.UUCP> lmb@vsi1.UUCP (Larry Blair) writes: =>Inodes are going to become a big issue. Many systems, like our Sun, are =>particularly stingy with creating inodes. It appears to me that the amount =>of crossposting has increased, which, of course, uses more inodes. = =Umm... there is only one inode per file. Crossposting simply adds =more directory entries; every directory entry points to the same inode. Touche', Joe. Credit this to not using my mental resources. Actually Karl Kleinpaste noticed it first (about 20 minutes after I posted). It always amazes me how fast the news propagates, but how slow the cancels are. Where was that paragraph on reviewing what I write before posting:-)? -- Larry Blair ames!vsi1!lmb lmb%vsi1.uucp@ames.arc.nasa.gov