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From: pp@pfawww.pp.se (Per Persson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Have you set up a News server?
Date: 14 May 1996 20:52:48 +0200
Organization: People's Front Against WWW
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In article <4n7k6g$kuc@service2.uky.edu>,
John Soward <soward@neworder.cc.uky.edu> wrote:
>
>But my real question concerns the use of the concurent drive "striping"  
>system. Does anyone have any experience/opionion on using that versus  
>splitting the articles/logs/etc over the various disks/controllers by hand?

From what I've seen, I'd say you should go for striping. On two of the
three newsservers I maintain I've gone from split disks to striping 
(using the old ODS (OnlineDiskSuit)). I get a much better
throughoutput with the striping. In a few weeks I'm going to recieve
yet another disk for the third server and as soon as that happens I'll
start striping things there as well.

--pp