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From: jmrueda@diatel.upm.es (Javier Martin Rueda )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: quotas and 4K/8K filesystems
Date: 24 Apr 1996 12:50:38 GMT
Organization: Dpt. Ing. Telematica
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Another two separate questions:

1) I remember that in FreeBSD 2.0R quotas were reported to be somehow
broken. Is it still true of 2.1R or later versions? (I think I haven't
seen any warning about using quotas, so I guess they are ok, but I just
want to confirm it.)

2) I store my news database in /var/news. Currently, that's a standard
8K per block filesystem, so I have a lot of internal fragmentation, and
run out of inodes with a lot of space still unused. So, I plan to recreate
the /var filesystem using 4K per block. However, I also remember that a lot
of time ago there were reports of problems under FreeBSD if you mixed
4K and 8K filesystems. Is that still true?

Thanks in advance.