From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Jan 25 07:14:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA11888 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Sun, 25 Jan 1998 07:14:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA11882 for ; Sun, 25 Jan 1998 07:14:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bkogawa@primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA20283; Sun, 25 Jan 1998 08:14:20 -0700 (MST) Received: from ip206.sjc.primenet.com(206.165.96.206), claiming to be "foo.primenet.com" via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd020249; Sun Jan 25 08:14:08 1998 Received: (from bkogawa@localhost) by foo.primenet.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) id HAA04372; Sun, 25 Jan 1998 07:16:34 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 07:16:34 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199801251516.HAA04372@foo.primenet.com> To: jack@germanium.xtalwind.net Subject: Re: INN Support for FreeBSD Newsgroups: localhost.freebsd.questions References: <8856271450138320000> From: "Bryan K. Ogawa" Cc: , "Kevin A. Carman" X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #1 (NOV) Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 http://www.primenet.com/~bkogawa/