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From: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>
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Subject: Re: freebsd as a news server?
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On Mon, 10 Mar 1997, Brian Tao wrote:

> 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.

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.

Regards,


Mike Hancock