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Date:      Tue, 11 Mar 1997 11:10:27 +0900 (JST)
From:      Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>
To:        Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
Cc:        Brian Tao <taob@vex.net>, "matthew c. mead" <mmead@goof.com>, isp@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: freebsd as a news server?
Message-ID:  <Pine.SV4.3.95.970311110932.5237A-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.94.970310150250.23210A-100000@misery.sdf.com>

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On Mon, 10 Mar 1997, Tom Samplonius wrote:

> 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.

And the magic number is ____.





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