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Date:      Wed, 9 Oct 2002 00:30:19 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Oliver Fromme <olli@secnetix.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Mount option "nomtime"?
Message-ID:  <200210082230.g98MUJ7D064559@lurza.secnetix.de>
In-Reply-To: <200210082203.g98M3OGI010628@orthanc.ab.ca>

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Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca> wrote:
 > 
 >     Oliver> (The reason why I'm asking: I am going to set up a new
 >     Oliver> newsserver (INN) on a FreeBSD machine, where all data
 >     Oliver> including the newsspool is stored on a NetApp Filer.)
 > 
 > For local INN storage you can avoid the mtime issue simply by using raw
 > disk partitions. For cycbufs, you don't need the filesystem -- just treat
 > the raw disk as the file. By bypassing the filesystem you eliminate all
 > of its overhead. The INN documentation describes how to set this up. You
 > might want to try this before committing $$$$$$$$$$ to a netapp filer.

I know the INN documentation by heart.  :-)

Using local disks is not possible, because the machine does
not have any local disks (except for a very small one for
booting the OS).  The NetApp Filer is already there and has
a few hundreds of Gbytes of space free, so that it'll be.
Both have gigabit ethernet, so that shouldn't be a problem.

I'm very curious how it will perform.

Regards
   Oliver

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