free form texual database
This System
root at chessene.UUCP
Wed Jan 11 04:50:36 AEST 1989
In article <451 at marob.MASA.COM>, daveh at marob.MASA.COM (Dave Hammond) writes:
% In article <379 at fsc2086.FSC.COM> jim at fsc2086.FSC.COM (Jim O'Connor) writes:
% >In article <397 at ispi.UUCP>, jbayer at ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer) writes:
% >> has to be able to store entries of arbitrary length (anywhere from a few
% >> lines to several pages), and be indexed by at least a header, [...]
% >Why not use the Xenix directory structure itself? You could write a few
% >programs to accept the data (sounds like a WP file), create the header[...]
% >...
% I went this route on a project a few years ago, and was sorry later that
% I did. The advantage of data manipulation with standard tools was far
% overshadowed by the tremendously inefficient disk usage. Because of the
% filesystem inode limit, we were bound to a maximum of ~16,000 inodes on
% a 30mb partition. With the average database entry size under 1K, the
% partition was effectively "filled" at ~16Mb, or half capacity.
RTFM. I had the same problem with the spool filesystem running out of inodes
when I started getting news.
NAME
mkfs - construct a file system
SYNOPSIS
/etc/mkfs special sectors[:inodes] [gap sectors/cyl]
^^^^^^^
Or were you running a version of UN*X even more brain-damaged than ours is?
(That can't be possible... :-)
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