From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 9 22:39:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC56E37B401 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 22:39:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dsl-64-128-185-9.telocity.com (dsl-64-128-185-9.telocity.com [64.128.185.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F57E43E4A for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 22:39:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjoyner@hq.dyns.cx) Received: (from root@localhost) by dsl-64-128-185-9.telocity.com (8.11.5/8.11.5) id g9A5c5N83440; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 01:38:05 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mjoyner@hq.dyns.cx) Received: from ip-34.internal (ip-34.internal [192.168.2.34]) by hq.dyns.cx (8.11.5/8.11.5av) with ESMTP id g9A5bwl83426; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 01:37:58 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mjoyner@hq.dyns.cx) Received: from hq.dyns.cx (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ip-34.internal (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9A5d8QO029698; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 01:39:09 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mjoyner@hq.dyns.cx) Message-ID: <3DA5127C.4010400@hq.dyns.cx> Disposition-Notification-To: Wolfieee Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 01:39:08 -0400 From: Wolfieee User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Oliver Fromme , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mount option "nomtime"? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG what about vnconfiging some files on the netapp thing, this way the *bsd can see the vnconfig files as local raw disk partitions? Oliver Fromme wrote: > Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > > > > Oliver> (The reason why I'm asking: I am going to set up a new > > Oliver> newsserver (INN) on a FreeBSD machine, where all data > > Oliver> including the newsspool is stored on a NetApp Filer.) > > > > For local INN storage you can avoid the mtime issue simply by using raw > > disk partitions. For cycbufs, you don't need the filesystem -- just treat > > the raw disk as the file. By bypassing the filesystem you eliminate all > > of its overhead. The INN documentation describes how to set this up. You > > might want to try this before committing $$$$$$$$$$ to a netapp filer. > > I know the INN documentation by heart. :-) > > Using local disks is not possible, because the machine does > not have any local disks (except for a very small one for > booting the OS). The NetApp Filer is already there and has > a few hundreds of Gbytes of space free, so that it'll be. > Both have gigabit ethernet, so that shouldn't be a problem. > > I'm very curious how it will perform. > > Regards > Oliver > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message