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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:1365 news.software.nntp:13578 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,news.software.nntp Subject: Re: Newspool Date: 25 May 1995 21:48:11 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 18 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <3q2tur$ffb@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <3q20eu$vk@airhk.air.org> <3q2524$7ot@brasil.moneng.mei.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <3q2524$7ot@brasil.moneng.mei.com>, Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> wrote: >In news.software.nntp article <3q20eu$vk@airhk.air.org>, chris@airhk.air.org (Chris Lo) wrote: >:Hi, >: >:Can anyone suggest a good newfs parameter for a newsspool under >:FreBSD, I find it cannot use a block size < 4096. I'm using SNAP-0322. > >Uh, what's the matter with 4096/512? I have used this forever, and it works >just fine.... news.sol.net (FreeBSD 2.0R) has a 7GB news spool, done this You must not be taking a very aggressive feed. For news spools, I can attest from personal experience that 4096/512 is NOT a very good value and tends to run you out of inodes pretty quick.. A much better value for a news partition is `-i 1024'. The 2.0.5 installation allows you to specify newfs parameters on a per-filesystem basis. Jordan