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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!news.uoregon.edu!news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!peer-news.britain.eu.net!newsfeed.ed.ac.uk!edcogsci!richard 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> Distribution: inet Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 12:34:31 GMT Lines: 17 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 -- "Hither turn thy steps, hither come to thy death and for Camilla receive due guerdon! Shalt thou, even thou, die by Diana's darts?" [Virgil, Aeneid X1 855-7]