Date: Sun, 3 Dec 1995 13:23:25 -0500 From: craigs@os.com (Craig Shrimpton) To: Peter Berger <peterb@telerama.lm.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Inodes for news server Message-ID: <199512031823.NAA01648@solar.os.com>
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> >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/
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