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From: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>
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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.

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