From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 3 10:18:39 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id KAA14214 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 3 Dec 1995 10:18:39 -0800 Received: from solar.os.com (root@solar.iii.net [199.232.46.97]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA14209 for ; Sun, 3 Dec 1995 10:18:31 -0800 Received: from jupiter (jupiter.os.com [199.232.47.66]) by solar.os.com (8.7/8.7.0) with SMTP id NAA01648; Sun, 3 Dec 1995 13:23:25 -0500 Date: Sun, 3 Dec 1995 13:23:25 -0500 Message-Id: <199512031823.NAA01648@solar.os.com> X-Sender: craigs@solar.os.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Peter Berger From: craigs@os.com (Craig Shrimpton) Subject: Re: Inodes for news server Cc: questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > >The history database sitting on it's own disk is a major win, >because it gets accessed once for each article that arrives, and every >time expire runs. It doesn't need two gigs though -- a 500 meg disk is >more than adequate to hold two copies of a pretty big history file (and >nothing else!) > Hmmm.. this sounds interesting, how about this: 1 850 MG IDE containing FreeBSD/OS, swap and news programs. 1 540 MG IDE containing only the history db. 1 4 GIG SCSI split 3 GIGS alt.* 1 GIG (some small group) 1 4 GIG SCSI everything else Also, give each SCSI drive its own controller. -Craig =================================================================== Shrimpton Consulting Orbit Systems Craig Shrimpton Email: craigs@os.com 17 Monroe Avenue Phone: (508) 753-8776 Worcester, MA 01602 http://www.os.com/