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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.


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