Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 14:56:05 -0500 (EST) From: Mark Larson <markl@agisgate.agis.net> To: Joe Greco <jgreco@solaria.sol.net> Cc: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd as a news server? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.91.970313145211.25571A-100000@agisgate.agis.net> In-Reply-To: <199703111903.NAA29668@solaria.sol.net>
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On Tue, 11 Mar 1997, Joe Greco wrote: > > In lists.freebsd.hackers you write: > > > > >Final note: You don't want to make one big filesystem. That's a > > >mistake. > > > > It depends on the installation, I use a single 22gb ccd array for my news > > spool, optimizing transactions nicely across the disks. Its not neccesarily a > > *bad* thing. Also makes management much more practical. > > I might agree if it was a RAID array. But with ccd, no way. Your > reliability just won't be there. > I have to disagree. I run CCD on all my news servers without a hitch. I eliminated th boot sectors with a small partition at the front of the drives, and I have not had a single problem. In fact I compared this system which is using ultra-wide SCSI drives to a raid system and saw no difference in performance or reliability. I run 14 of these servers across the country and have not had a failure since they were put into production 8 months ago. > As far as the management thing goes, I agree, but then, I have never really > had a problem breaking things up into > > !*,alt.binaries.* > !*,alt.*,!alt.binaries.* > *,!alt.* > > I've actually found it easier to administer, but that's just my opinion. > > I still optimize transactions nicely across the disks. :-) > > ... Joe > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net > Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847 >
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