From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 19 19:44:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA16327 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 19:44:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com (brasil.moneng.mei.com [151.186.109.160]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA16318 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 19:44:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by brasil.moneng.mei.com (8.7.Beta.1/8.7.Beta.1) id VAA09184; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 21:42:29 -0600 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199602200342.VAA09184@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: Some SERIOUS NFS usage - advice needed To: karl@mcs.com (Karl Denninger, MCSNet) Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 21:42:28 -0600 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, rashid@rk.ios.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Karl Denninger, MCSNet" at Feb 19, 96 09:46:20 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text 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 > > Uh, what's "ccd". Are we talking striping in software on FreeBSD 2.1? Yes we are. See announcement on -hackers. Distribution site is a machine out at Berkeley whose name escapes me. ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/546-7968