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On Wed, 29 Jan 1997, Charles Henrich wrote:

>     2.  (this is more important than #1) Move the .overview files out of
>     the /var/spool/news hierarchy.
>
> Does this hold true with FreeBSD?

My guess would be yes.  The point is made for filesystems in general.
While FreeBSD's buffer cache may help you a little bit, the theory applies
to any filesystem, DOS, UNIX, you name it.  

By putting it on a separate disk, the operation can happen concurrently
with another operation and doesn't have to wait for the disk to physically
seek to the location.  

The same theory applies to why you spread news spools across disks.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major