From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Aug 22 13:01:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA11993 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 22 Aug 1996 13:01:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pinky.junction.net (pinky.junction.net [199.166.227.12]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA11745 for ; Thu, 22 Aug 1996 12:59:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sidhe.memra.com (sidhe.memra.com [199.166.227.105]) by pinky.junction.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id MAA13577; Thu, 22 Aug 1996 12:12:20 -0700 Received: from localhost (michael@localhost) by sidhe.memra.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA15934; Thu, 22 Aug 1996 12:56:29 -0700 Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 12:56:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Dillon To: Craig Shrimpton cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Anyone using ccd (FreeBSD disk striper) for news In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19960822194013.0082c27c@solar> Message-ID: Organization: Memra Software Inc. - Internet consulting MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 22 Aug 1996, Craig Shrimpton wrote: > Is anyone using the disk concatenator for FreeBSD on a news spool? It looks > like it can dramatically increase performance but seems a little "hairy" to > setup. I'd like to know this too because I'm going through an exercise right now helping a provider build a more stable and effective fullfeed news server than what they have. The cost of RAID is a bit steep for this provider and as a result we've been leaning towards Linux with md. There are a few things about FreeBSD that I don't understand well enough right now. One of them is software RAID striping and it sounds like ccd does this? Another one is whether FreeBSD supports MMAP. And then there is the whole NNRPD shared active thingy. There have already been a couple of messages that make me think FreeBSD might be the better choice of OS here. Since running an effective fullfeed USENET news server is getting harder and harder these days I'm sure that there are others who would welcome hearing about how it is done. Michael Dillon - ISP & Internet Consulting Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-604-546-3049 http://www.memra.com - E-mail: michael@memra.com