Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 22:37:28 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Alok K. Dhir" <adhir@worldbank.org> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Partitioning large disk for news... Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961220223449.244N-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.95.961220145743.4809A-100000@bheema.worldbank.org>
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Crossposting isn't necessary. On Fri, 20 Dec 1996, Alok K. Dhir wrote: > Hey all - I'm getting ready to install a Pro200 running FreeBSD 2.1.6.1 as > our news server here at the World Bank, and have the following questions: Wahoo! Maybe you can sneak us some funding...:) > I have a Seagate 9 gig disk to use as the news spool, and I'm wondering > what the best way to use it will be (the / and /usr partitions are on a > separate 2 gig disk). Ouch! Your news spool is not going to be nice. A big disk is *not* how to make an efficient spool. You want to split it up over disks so you can get multiple reads. See the INN FAQ for complete instructions on how to deal with such a setup. > I remember in the past (way back in the 1.1.5.1 - 2.0 days) there was some > trouble with partitions larger than 2 gigs. Is this still the case? If > so, I'm thinking maybe I can use the ccd driver to serially concatenate 5 > partitions on the disk together for use as one large news spool. Not anymore. And you probably won't want to stripe your disks together, again concurrent access being the question. CCD has made possible the creation of 4 terrabyte filesystems :) so you aren't even close to breaking anything. Just don't have a 2GB file. > Unrelated note: I recently had all sorts of trouble trying to get the > BSDI version of Netscape 3.0 running on my 2.1.6.1 box. Turns out I had > commented out the 'options "COMPAT_43"' line in my kernel conf file, and > for some reason, BSDI (and Linux) compatibility won't work without it. > Perhaps there should be mention of this in LINT. Xterm didn't barf? It usually does if COMPAT_43 isn't in there. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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