Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 07:16:34 -0800 (PST) From: "Bryan K. Ogawa" <bkogawa@primenet.com> To: jack@germanium.xtalwind.net Cc: <isp@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Kevin A. Carman" <kcarman@inetone.net> Subject: Re: INN Support for FreeBSD Message-ID: <199801251516.HAA04372@foo.primenet.com> References: <8856271450138320000> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980123150810.3745A-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net>
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In localhost.freebsd.questions you write: >On Fri, 23 Jan 1998, Kevin A. Carman wrote: [stuff about INN and news snipped] >> 5). Does FreeBSD support RAID level 5 using 3 - 8.4Gig IDE/EIDE >> Hard Drives? >Look at ccd(4) A few things to note: 1. ccd supports (AFAIK) RAID 0 (software striping), not RAID 5 (fault-tolerant mirroring). This is actually ok for news, because RAID 5 isn't as fast as RAID 0. You probably want RAID 0 for news, whatever you use. 2. I would not recommand using IDE drives for news. While there has been a fair amount of "hey, IDE is good enough for most people" talk lately (my next (cheap) box will probably be IDE), I think news servers are still a place where SCSI is much better than IDE. You might want to search for Joe Greco's posts about sol.net's news servers (search on the www.freebsd.org search engine): he's running a top-10 news server or two with FreeBSD, and he has discussed hardware for both INN and Diablo. -- bryan k ogawa <bkogawa@primenet.com> http://www.primenet.com/~bkogawa/
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