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From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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Subject: Re: Odd crash after inode depletion..
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> I do not believe it is bug.  news uses *lots* of small files.  A news 
> filesystem should be newfs for smaller blocks and more inodes.  see man 
> newfs -b and -i
> jbeukema

The fs in question was newfs'd -b 4096 -f 512.  On this partition, which I
believe holds rec.*, I have noticed that this yields an almost 1-to-1
correspondence between percentage-disk and percentage-inodes  :-) 

Usually -b 4096 -f 512 yields a higher pct-disk than pct-inodes...

Just a curiousity.  ;-)

... JG