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- From: marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier)
- Subject: Re: Question and Observations
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- Organization: York University
- References: <marcf.725558783@yorku.ca> <bk9i85''@twinsun.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 00:10:58 GMT
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- junio@twinsun.com (Jun Hamano) writes:
-
- >Marc G Fournier <marcf@nexus.yorku.ca> asks a couple of questions
- >and comments in <marcf.725558783@yorku.ca>.
-
- >As to passwd expiration problem, read manual page of `passwd' and
- >find how to use `-x' option.
-
- Will do :)
-
- >About mkfs `-i'. It doesn't affect the blocksize. Traditional
- >unix filesystem (and MINIX filesystem linux uses) allocates
- >storage for inode area and blocks when the filesystem is
- >initialized, and mkfs have to figure out how many inodes it needs
- >to allocate for the filesystem being created. The ideal
- >configuration is that you run out inodes and block storage space
- >at the same time; otherwise either one of these would be wasted.
- >If you expect you will have a lot of small files, then give
- >smaller value to `-i' option so that you won't run out of inodes
- >before you run out of disk space.
-
- Okay, but one thing that I liked about the version I'm
- using now is that you could stipulate different block sizes. I'm
- currently using 512 byte blocks as opposed to the current Linux 1k
- blocks. The benefit that I see with 512byte blocks is that ifyou have
- a file that is only 499bytes (or something less then an even multiple
- of 1k, you are only wasting 512bytes instead of 1k of the file system.
-
- for example...
-
- I create a fs of 70 Meg. Under linux, that works out to be
- 70,000 blocks, whereas under a 512byte block system, that works out to
- be 140,000 blocks. therefore, I can hold 140,000 x 400byte articles
- under the 512byte system as opposed to 70,000 x 400 byte articles under
- Linux, thereby also wasting half the hard drive.
-
-
- >About your `gripes' section; I too have the same feeling about
- >SLS distribution, but this is certainly _not_ the problem with
- >linux itself. We should send bug-reports and suggestions to
-
- I do apologize for the obvious misconception that I put out :(
- I think that Linux itself is great...the net is great at responding
- to problems, Linus himself has developed a great kernel (from what
- I know about kernels *smile*) and those that are 'creating' packages
- are doing a great job, considering how fast things are growing and
- being developed. *hat off to all involved*
-
- >people (person?) at SoftLanding so that the next release will
- >have more reasonable configuration. From what I've seen in
- >c.o.l, about 30% of newbee questions and gripes wouldn't have
- >been posted in the first place if SLS release did things right
- >(e.g. "/etc/passwd not being readable by everybody" comes to
- >mind). It is a trivial, but a tad tedious task to fix all the
- >ownership and permission bits and such, but SLS release has so
- >much influence to those naive linux users with little or no unix
- >experience, we should urge and help SLS to provide more
- >reasonable and easy to manage system configuration. I think it
- >would benefit us, too; we wouldn't have to be bothered by trivial
- >questions every time somebody finds out his users get error
- >message from `who' command, for example.
-
- the thing that I would honestly like to know is...from
- peter mcdonald (I think)...have you ever set up the SLS distribution
- under a multi-user environment? From the way I see things running,
- and permissions set, I don't see how...unless what is being distributed
- is not the same?
-
- BTW, Peter...I do appreciate the distribution that you are
- working hard at maintaining, and plan on sticking with it...I've
- even dedicated an area on my file system for SLS for other ppl to
- access who don't have ftp access.
-
- Thanks...
-
- Marc
-