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Date:      Mon, 19 Feb 1996 09:46:20 -0600 (CST)
From:      "Karl Denninger, MCSNet" <karl@mcs.com>
To:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
Cc:        jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, rashid@rk.ios.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Some SERIOUS NFS usage - advice needed
Message-ID:  <m0toXnB-000IDVC@venus.mcs.com>
In-Reply-To: <199602190452.PAA08872@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Feb 19, 96 03:22:32 pm

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> 
> Joe Greco stands accused of saying:
> > > 
> > > For news, you want one machine hosting the news, and a number of NFS
> > > clients running readers only.  Don't try to run your news databases
> > > across NFS, it's just too slow.
> > 
> > NFS clients running readers?  I disagree..!  You are not lowering the I/O
> > demands on the server disks at all.  Run slaves  :-)
> 
> Urk, good point.  Forget I ever suggested it!
> 
> > ccd works fine, I have not tested more than two disks striped, more than one
> > ccd device, or a partition > 8GB, but I do have 2-drive 4GB and 8GB
> > partitions running on news.sol.net and daily-planet.execpc.com, very
> > reliable.  news.sol.net has actually STOPPED crashing because it's no longer
> > running out of disk space every few days  :-)
> 
> Yay!
> 
> > ... Joe

Uh, what's "ccd".  Are we talking striping in software on FreeBSD 2.1?

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