From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 8 15:30:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EFEF37B401 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 15:30:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [212.66.1.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D06743E6A for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 15:30:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g98MUKmC064560 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 00:30:20 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g98MUJ7D064559; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 00:30:19 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 00:30:19 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200210082230.g98MUJ7D064559@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mount option "nomtime"? In-Reply-To: <200210082203.g98M3OGI010628@orthanc.ab.ca> X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-hackers User-Agent: tin/1.5.4-20000523 ("1959") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.6-STABLE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Lyndon Nerenberg 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 -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "All that we see or seem is just a dream within a dream" (E. A. Poe) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message