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From: hart@apanix.apana.org.au (Leigh Hart)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: INN, BIG disks, etc.
Date: 13 May 1995 04:38:03 GMT
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johnson@chaos.dac.neu.edu (Chris Johnson) writes:

> I see that there are people running INN on BSDI systems, say a
> pentium for example.

And 486's.

> Can BSDI handle the new 9 gig disks in a reasonable way?  I'd like
> to mount most of it as a single partition and not have to worry about
> toy inode or file space limits.  

If you really want to increase performance in your news spool, mount 4
or five 2gb scsi-2's onto various parts of /var/spool/news/[...].  You
will find the increase in performance more useful than a single 9gb
partition.

But to answer your question, yes.  BSD/OS 2.0 is based on CSRG's 4.4-Lite,
and one of its features is 64 bit offsets, allowing filesystems of up to
2^63 bytes in size.  Ie: 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 bytes or over 9 million
gigabytes.  toy limits like 9gb are history :-P

To top it off, you can configure a disk for its purpose as far as inodes
are concerned - if you are going to use it for news, then configure 2kb
per inode, if you are going to use it for archives (ftp, etc) then configure
it for less (eg: 8kb per inode).

> Is there any kind of logical disk system in BASI that can build a
> logical disk from a number of physical drives?  I'm really tired of
> symlinks.  

If you're setting up a system from scratch, define your partitions and
mount points how you want them.  eg:

sd0a	/
sd0b	swap
sd0e	/usr
sd0f	/var
sd1a	/tmp
sd1b	swap
sd1e	/usr/local
sd1f	/var/spool/mqueue
sd2a	/var/log
sd2b	swap
sd2e	/var/spool/news
sd3a	/usr/ftp
sd3b	swap
sd3e	/usr/users

etc.

No reason to stick to mount points in / :-)

> How easy is it to put the usual good stuff up on BSDI, i.e. INN,
> sendmail, BIND, Gopher Web servers, etc.?  

The BSD/OS 2.0 CDROM comes with all of the above pre compiled, each
with configuration scripts to help set them up.  Their config_www
script even creates a homepage for you based on the questions it asks :-)

> I'd really like to have a chat about this from real users and not
> sales droids.  Thanks much.  Any help appreciated.

I've been using FreeBSD since it came out, BSD/OS (BSDI) is a cleaner,
more polished and complete BSD, which is what you pay for :-)

I use FreeBSD for home/hobby and BSDI for work.

Cheers

Leigh
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