From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 18 20:51:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA28865 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 18 Feb 1996 20:51:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA28446 for ; Sun, 18 Feb 1996 20:49:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id PAA08872; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 15:22:33 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199602190452.PAA08872@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Some SERIOUS NFS usage - advice needed To: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco) Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 15:22:32 +1030 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, rashid@rk.ios.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199602190404.WAA08332@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from "Joe Greco" at Feb 18, 96 10:04:22 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Joe Greco stands accused of saying: > > > > For news, you want one machine hosting the news, and a number of NFS > > clients running readers only. Don't try to run your news databases > > across NFS, it's just too slow. > > NFS clients running readers? I disagree..! You are not lowering the I/O > demands on the server disks at all. Run slaves :-) Urk, good point. Forget I ever suggested it! > ccd works fine, I have not tested more than two disks striped, more than one > ccd device, or a partition > 8GB, but I do have 2-drive 4GB and 8GB > partitions running on news.sol.net and daily-planet.execpc.com, very > reliable. news.sol.net has actually STOPPED crashing because it's no longer > running out of disk space every few days :-) Yay! > ... Joe -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "I seek PEZ!" - The Tick [[