From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 2 06:29:33 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id GAA25594 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 2 Dec 1995 06:29:33 -0800 Received: from ivory.lm.com (ivory.lm.com [192.231.221.9]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA25587 for ; Sat, 2 Dec 1995 06:29:31 -0800 Received: (from peterb@localhost) by ivory.lm.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id JAA12229; Sat, 2 Dec 1995 09:35:16 -0500 Date: Sat, 2 Dec 1995 09:35:15 -0500 (EST) From: Peter Berger X-Sender: peterb@ivory.lm.com To: Craig Shrimpton cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Inodes for news server In-Reply-To: <199512020103.UAA20510@solar.os.com> Message-ID: X-Mentos: The Freshmaker! X-Request-Do: resolve MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Use 4 2 gig drives. The more you split your spool, the less time you spend waiting for the devices to finish writing. I speak from hard-won experience. Heck, if you can swing it, split those drives across two SCSI controllers. Of course, this makes the configuration end of things even more of a pain in the ass, but that's the price you pay. Peter On Fri, 1 Dec 1995, Craig Shrimpton wrote: > 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/ > "The law locks up both man and woman / Who steals the goose from off the common, But lets the greater felon loose / Who steals the common from the goose." -anon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Berger - peterb@telerama.lm.com - http://www.lm.com/~peterb