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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!not-for-mail 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 Lines: 15 Message-ID: <4nakq0$430@pfawww.pp.se> References: <4n2fqe$id6@falstaf.demon.co.uk> <4n7k6g$kuc@service2.uky.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: pfawww.pp.se In article <4n7k6g$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