From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 11 19:21:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA08970 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 19:21:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from dg-rtp.dg.com (dg-rtp.rtp.dg.com [128.222.1.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA08922 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 19:21:17 -0800 (PST) Received: by dg-rtp.dg.com (5.4R3.10/dg-rtp-v02) id AA21064; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 22:20:10 -0500 Received: from ponds by dg-rtp.dg.com.rtp.dg.com; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 22:20 EST Received: from lakes.water.net (lakes [10.0.0.3]) by ponds.water.net (8.8.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA07156; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 21:47:13 -0500 (EST) Received: (from rivers@localhost) by lakes.water.net (8.8.3/8.6.9) id VAA24921; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 21:53:16 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 21:53:16 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <199703120253.VAA24921@lakes.water.net> To: ponds!FreeBSD.ORG!freebsd-hackers, ponds!crh.cl.msu.edu!henrich, ponds!solaria.sol.net!jgreco Subject: Re: freebsd as a news server? Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk To add to Charles' statement below.. > > 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. > > -Crh > -- > > Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@msu.edu Also, older versions of Cnews (the one I happen to use, for example) assume one file system, as they use 'df' et al to determine the available free space for articles/batches/etc... if you spread your news spool across multiple file systems; this will break. CCD is a great "fixer" of that particular problem. - Dave Rivers -