Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 15:22:32 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, rashid@rk.ios.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Some SERIOUS NFS usage - advice needed Message-ID: <199602190452.PAA08872@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199602190404.WAA08332@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from "Joe Greco" at Feb 18, 96 10:04:22 pm
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Joe Greco stands accused of saying: > > > > For news, you want one machine hosting the news, and a number of NFS > > clients running readers only. Don't try to run your news databases > > across NFS, it's just too slow. > > NFS clients running readers? I disagree..! You are not lowering the I/O > demands on the server disks at all. Run slaves :-) Urk, good point. Forget I ever suggested it! > ccd works fine, I have not tested more than two disks striped, more than one > ccd device, or a partition > 8GB, but I do have 2-drive 4GB and 8GB > partitions running on news.sol.net and daily-planet.execpc.com, very > reliable. news.sol.net has actually STOPPED crashing because it's no longer > running out of disk space every few days :-) Yay! > ... Joe -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "I seek PEZ!" - The Tick [[
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