advfs and metacells [3.0 B]

From: Joe Provo <jprovo_at_ultranet.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 1995 02:55:27 -0500

   We have only one system running advfs (under V3.0 358.78) and have
gone through the [seemingly ridiculous] task of touching a number of
empty files on the order of what we expect to have incoming for news.
And things still clobber themselves.

   I'm a little tired of this guessing game. Can anyone provide a real
technical reference as to why 'bumping against the ceiling' of the
metacell table is supposed to help? Is there any magic similar to the
ordinary adjusting of the inode/K ratio that can be done to gain more
metacells? ["Nope. you won't have to worry about running out of
 _inodes_ ever again. nope. you're all set on _inodes_..."]

Joe, saddened that there's no real ref to this in osf-managers... are
    we the only ones bitten by this? Did the goofball 'touch a lot and
    remove them' work for everyone else? Is it a case of "get this
    patch" or do I have to look toward 3.2?

       Systems and Network Admin, UltraNet Communications Inc.
  508.229.8400(voice) jprovo_at_ultra.net 508.229.8111(data)
  A network service provider in Marlboro, MA mailto:info_at_ultra.net
Received on Mon Mar 06 1995 - 02:56:04 NZDT

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