Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 08:48:57 -0600 (CST) From: Guy Helmer <ghelmer@alpha.dsu.edu> To: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Cc: John Beukema <john@gateway.net.hk>, hackers@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: newsserver configuration Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.951208083220.16763B-100000@alpha.dsu.edu> In-Reply-To: <199512071225.GAA10255@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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On Thu, 7 Dec 1995, Joe Greco wrote: > [... sample news server config ...] > I typically recommend a MINIMAL setup: > [... lots o' disks ...] > News Rule 1: You would rather have LOTS of slightly slower, smaller disks > than a few large, fast drives. This fact has been lost on so many people. > If I had a nickel for every time I've told somebody this and they've ignored > me, I could be Bill Gates. What has always bothered me about multiple-disk news spools is the warning about using makehistory on a news filesystem that uses symlinks. Just a little over a month ago, I completely lost a history file, and it seems I could have followed the advice on the news-recovery man page (to use find(1) to remove all the symlinks in the news spool). Now, after a few minor crashes apparently due to a new disk on my SCSI chain interacting badly with the other, I probably need to run a makehistory -bu (but I sure wouldn't want to remove all the symlinks in the news spool before I would do the makehistory!). What are the thoughts on this, or are there patches to makehistory to handle symlinks? > ... Joe Thanks, Guy Helmer Guy Helmer, Dakota State University Computing Services - ghelmer@alpha.dsu.edu
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