Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 10:53:14 +0100 From: Stuart Henderson <stuart@eclipse.net.uk> To: Mitch Vincent <cygone@zoomnet.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sold state drives... Message-ID: <379ED30A.3DDD737D@eclipse.net.uk> References: <00a601bed87c$8b25b0c0$0200000a@windows.cygone.com>
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> Most Pentium boards will hold up to 2 gigs of RAM now I think, > you could just do it with a RAM disk and a backup hard drive. > When it boots, copy everything from the hard disk to the RAM > disk and off you go.. How about feeding off a "real" news server to nntpcache running on RAM disk? That avoids the need to rebuild at bootup (yeuch) and you will be able to present a much better range of articles and still have the commonly read/recent ones in ram. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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