From owner-freebsd-isp Thu May 9 17:20:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA13284 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 9 May 1996 17:20:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chloe.dmv.com (root@chloe.dmv.com [206.30.64.31]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA13263 Thu, 9 May 1996 17:20:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from patrick@localhost) by chloe.dmv.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id UAA00885; Thu, 9 May 1996 20:24:23 -0400 Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 20:24:23 -0400 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 0.3-beta [p0] on FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <9605011412.AA03126@www> Reply-To: patrick@chloe.dmv.com Organization: DelMarVa Online From: Patrick Ferguson To: Joel Kelmenson Subject: RE: Multiple disks for news server? Cc: , Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed May 1 15:34:52 1996 Joel Kelmenson wrote: >>I would like to thank everyone who replyed to my question >about the best setup for a news server. All of your input >was most valuable. This is a great forum! > >I try not to post any questions in this list unless I can't >find the answers from the archives from this list. > > > >Joe Greco wrote:> > >Remember the golden news rule, > >MORE DRIVES TRANSLATES INTO MORE THROUGHPUT. > >You would rather have four 2GB Hawk > >drives than two 4GB Barracuda's. > >My question is, how do I span the news over multiple disks. > >I have seen some answers to this but it was a little to tech. >for me to get a good understanding where to start. If someone >could shed some light on this I would once again be very grateful. > >Examples would also be helpful, if possible. > >Joel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Patrick Ferguson - Systems Administrator patrick@dmv.com DelMarVa OnLine! - Salisbury, MD -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.2 mQBNAzGBrOQAAAECALpR8GMUAXnKbr9LeXVv18Q8y/n1NM1+YS8ffP/5HvM0gyso F1T9+gcGvb3L2nFwj+wnig0UQY93vXqhXPoFN4UABRG0IlBhdHJpY2sgRmVyZ3Vz b24gPHBhdHJpY2tAZG12LmNvbT4= =AgnQ -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----