Date: Wed, 09 Jul 1997 22:12:31 -0400 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> To: David Lowe <dlowe@sirius.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: INN on an async-mounted spool? Message-ID: <27223.868500751@orion.webspan.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 09 Jul 1997 15:01:39 PDT." <Pine.NXT.3.95q.970709143528.16133B-100000@ds9>
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David Lowe wrote in message ID <Pine.NXT.3.95q.970709143528.16133B-100000@ds9>: > Has anyone here tried INN on an async-mounted spool in production? Yep. news.webspan.net, full feed (several of them), async spool for over 10 months now. Until a panic yesterday morning at 5am (and it was sitting at the fsck prompt when I got here, so I don't even know what happened), it had been up for 145 days. > We're not too concerned about data loss on the spool in the event of a > failure - but we *are* concerned about the async option actually *causing* > crashes. While we were running async, we had two mysterious crashes > (which of course led to some data loss & required human intervention for > fsck'ing). Since we've gone synchronous, we've not had these mystery > crashes (knock wood) but we've also not been able to keep up as nicely as > we'd like to. > > Has anyone had success with an async-mounted spool in the long term? > Pros? Cons? Hrm. Interesting. I've heard from another friend about stability problems on his news box, and I bet he's got it async mounted also. I run a RELENG_2_2 kernel from late last year (around the start of November) and I mean to update it soonish, but this is giving me pause for thought. With the current situation with Hell Atlantic not kicking USENET spammers off (and that spam acocunting for 25% of all traffic I see), I can't do without async mounts ... Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info
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