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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
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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:-)?

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Larry Blair   ames!vsi1!lmb   lmb%vsi1.uucp@ames.arc.nasa.gov