Date: Wed, 09 Jul 1997 20:16:46 -0700 From: alex huppenthal <alex@comsys.com> To: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: David Lowe <dlowe@sirius.com>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: INN on an async-mounted spool? Message-ID: <33C4541E.D33@comsys.com> References: <27223.868500751@orion.webspan.net>
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Anyone distilled the recent inn, nntp release installation process for FreeBSD 2.2.1 into the simple 12 step process it really should be? :) -Alex Gary Palmer wrote: > > 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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