From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 1 16:54:08 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id QAA09138 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 16:54:08 -0800 Received: from solar.os.com (root@solar.iii.net [199.232.46.97]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA09131 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 16:54:00 -0800 Received: from jupiter (jupiter.os.com [199.232.47.66]) by solar.os.com (8.7/8.7.0) with SMTP id UAA20510 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 20:03:04 -0500 Date: Fri, 1 Dec 1995 20:03:04 -0500 Message-Id: <199512020103.UAA20510@solar.os.com> X-Sender: craigs@solar.os.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: questions@freebsd.org From: craigs@os.com (Craig Shrimpton) Subject: Inodes for news server Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Greetings, I'm building a news server and would like some advice. Is it better to use 2 4 GIG drives or 4 2 GIG drives? Basically, I need to know if the performance difference is worth paying an extra $1000.00 for the 2 GIGGERS. Also, when I mkfs, what is the proper inode count for a news drive? Thanks, Craig =================================================================== Shrimpton Consulting Orbit Systems Craig Shrimpton Email: craigs@os.com 17 Monroe Avenue Phone: (508) 753-8776 Worcester, MA 01602 http://www.os.com/