Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 17:20:05 +0100 (CET) From: N <niels@bakker.net> To: Dan Swartzendruber <druber@kersur.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RAID solutions? Message-ID: <981216170313.30310A-100000@liquid.tpb.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981216105949.15862A-100000@mail.kersur.net>
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>> I have a box with 20 disks, split over four controllers (yes, you guessed >> it: a news server). Running 3.0-CURRENT from somewhere last month. Very >> happy with FreeBSD, very unhappy with INN. > Unhappy how? Why? CNFS isn't too fast. See news.software.nntp and the inn-workers@isc.org archives, among others. >> I think you'd be better off with 4 GB disks - less latency when you have >> to do a *lot* of seeks (like you have to for a news swerver), but that's >> more a question for news.software.nntp. > That is my first choice, but that requires twice the hardware. I'll have > to run that by management... On the other hand, the hardware is cheaper. You can run Diablo on 9GB disks, but a reader machine is a different beast altogether, especially if you use traditional spool. And didn't mgt. give you a bag of money to throw at the problem anyway? :-) -- Niels. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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