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From: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu>
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Subject: Re: freebsd as a news server?
To: jgreco@solaria.sol.net (Joe Greco)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 14:05:59 -0500 (EST)
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In-Reply-To: <199703111903.NAA29668@solaria.sol.net> from Joe Greco at "Mar 11, 97 01:03:38 pm"
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> I might agree if it was a RAID array.  But with ccd, no way.  Your
> reliability just won't be there.

I guess I just dont care about reliability in that case.  If I have a
catastrophic failure of the news spool, well it'll all be back in a few days
in any case.  The critical groups I carry we backup nightly.

-Crh

       Charles Henrich     Michigan State University     henrich@msu.edu

                         http://pilot.msu.edu/~henrich