Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 21:42:28 -0600 (CST) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: karl@mcs.com (Karl Denninger, MCSNet) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, rashid@rk.ios.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Some SERIOUS NFS usage - advice needed Message-ID: <199602200342.VAA09184@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <m0toXnB-000IDVC@venus.mcs.com> from "Karl Denninger, MCSNet" at Feb 19, 96 09:46:20 am
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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 > > Uh, what's "ccd". Are we talking striping in software on FreeBSD 2.1? Yes we are. See announcement on -hackers. Distribution site is a machine out at Berkeley whose name escapes me. ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/546-7968
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