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On Tue, 11 Mar 1997, Michael Hancock wrote:

...
> I've been using -i 3072 -b 4096 -f 1024 -a 8 for non-binary newsgroups and
> the default for binary newsgroups.
> 
> This way news articles on average will fit in a block.

  You always want maxcontig to beigger than 8.  It has nothing to do with
file allocation, only have many sectors are transfered at once to the
driver.

Tom