From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 13 11:57:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA17305 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 11:57:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from agisgate.agis.net (agisgate.agis.net [205.137.48.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA17298 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 11:57:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from markl@localhost) by agisgate.agis.net (8.8.5/8.7.3) id OAA25977; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 14:56:05 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 14:56:05 -0500 (EST) From: Mark Larson To: Joe Greco cc: Charles Henrich , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd as a news server? In-Reply-To: <199703111903.NAA29668@solaria.sol.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 >