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From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: Micropolis 1991 AV 9GB Drive 
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Brett Glass wrote in message ID
<9603158296.AA829602096@ccgate.infoworld.com>:
> Sounds as if storage is poorly arranged and/or fragmented.

After a few weeks/months of being a news spool, it will be fragmented,
yes. That's unavoidable :-( And the ``arrangement'' that I was using
was a single partition filling the whole disk for the spool
... splitting it would just make it an administrative nightmare. So
the ``arrangement'' is dictated by the UFS/FFS kernel code...

Gary