Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: /usr/spool/news on multiple disks
Message-ID: <1990Apr7.213401.13312@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <10544@netcom.UUCP> <SCOTT.90Apr6083757@gr375.grlab.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 90 21:34:01 GMT

In article <SCOTT.90Apr6083757@gr375.grlab.UUCP> scott@grlab.UUCP (Scott Blachowicz) writes:
>> I'm suprised more people haven't encounted this problem, when you can only
>> put 60000 inodes on a single disk.
>...when YOU can only put 60000 inodes... One of our file systems (we
>run HP-UX) has "159744 total i-nodes". We're currently only using
>~46000 of them, but I assume that many wouldn't get allocated if we
>couldn't use them. There BETTER not be any 60000 limititation....

Old Unixes used 16-bit inode numbers in directory entries, making it
inherently impossible to have more than 64K-1 inodes per filesystem.
Most System Vs in the field still have this restriction.
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