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From: Brian Tao <taob@vex.net>
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On Sun, 9 Mar 1997, Tom Samplonius wrote:
> 
> But isn't choosing block and fragment sizes very important as well?

    I would imagine so, but the default values chosen by newfs appear
to work quite well.  I just bump up the number of inodes reserved on a
news spool filesystem; everything else uses the default values.
--
Brian Tao (BT300, taob@risc.org)
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"