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From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Subject: Re: Poor performance with INN and FreeBSD.
Message-ID: <DnFpLJ.2xp.0.macbeth@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh
References: <4gij7n$pmm@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4go23v$8hp@fozzie.sun3.iaf.nl> <4gqvs8$7u@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 12:34:31 GMT
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In article <4gqvs8$7u@uriah.heep.sax.de> j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:
>I doubt anybody will be bothered enough to rewrite a file system from
>scratch just for news servers. :)
I don't know about that... it should certainly be a smaller project
than, say, Cnews.
It might make more sense to write a news system that didn't use files
to store the articles, but then if you'd done that it wouldn't be too
hard to make a filesystem interface to it.
-- Richard
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