Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 21:53:16 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas David Rivers <ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com> To: ponds!FreeBSD.ORG!freebsd-hackers, ponds!crh.cl.msu.edu!henrich, ponds!solaria.sol.net!jgreco Subject: Re: freebsd as a news server? Message-ID: <199703120253.VAA24921@lakes.water.net>
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To add to Charles' statement below.. > > In lists.freebsd.hackers you write: > > >Final note: You don't want to make one big filesystem. That's a > >mistake. > > It depends on the installation, I use a single 22gb ccd array for my news > spool, optimizing transactions nicely across the disks. Its not neccesarily a > *bad* thing. Also makes management much more practical. > > -Crh > -- > > Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@msu.edu Also, older versions of Cnews (the one I happen to use, for example) assume one file system, as they use 'df' et al to determine the available free space for articles/batches/etc... if you spread your news spool across multiple file systems; this will break. CCD is a great "fixer" of that particular problem. - Dave Rivers -
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