From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 11 11:04:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA00282 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 11:04:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from anacreon.sol.net (anacreon.sol.net [206.55.64.116]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA00276 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 11:04:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from solaria.sol.net (solaria.sol.net [206.55.65.75]) by anacreon.sol.net (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id NAA10664; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 13:03:41 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost by solaria.sol.net (8.5/8.5) id NAA29668; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 13:03:39 -0600 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199703111903.NAA29668@solaria.sol.net> Subject: Re: freebsd as a news server? To: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu (Charles Henrich) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 97 13:03:38 CST Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199703111830.NAA04859@crh.cl.msu.edu> from "Charles Henrich" at Mar 11, 97 01:30:36 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL65] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > In lists.freebsd.hackers you write: > > >Final note: You don't want to make one big filesystem. That's a > >mistake. > > It depends on the installation, I use a single 22gb ccd array for my news > spool, optimizing transactions nicely across the disks. Its not neccesarily a > *bad* thing. Also makes management much more practical. I might agree if it was a RAID array. But with ccd, no way. Your reliability just won't be there. As far as the management thing goes, I agree, but then, I have never really had a problem breaking things up into !*,alt.binaries.* !*,alt.*,!alt.binaries.* *,!alt.* I've actually found it easier to administer, but that's just my opinion. I still optimize transactions nicely across the disks. :-) ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847