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From: Ollivier.Robert@eurocontrol.fr (Ollivier Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD as news-server??
Date: 17 Oct 1996 11:55:43 GMT
Organization: Eurocontrol EEC, Bretigny, France
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Message-ID: <5456rv$kbu@polaris.eurocontrol.fr>
References: <537ddl$3cc@amd40.wecs.org> <543urf$ar3@flash.noc.best.net> <544bat$41o@twwells.com> <544nas$b5h@flash.noc.best.net>
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In article <544nas$b5h@flash.noc.best.net>,
Matthew Dillon <dillon@best.com> wrote:
> news1:/home/news/spool/news/rec/arts/disney# ls -1 */ | wc
>           877           872          5235
> 
> 
>     See?  The .overview file is near the beginning of the directory. 
>     Ergo, it is likely to be cached since the article file was just written
>     to the same directory.

Don't tell me you're putting the .overview files in the same directory
structure as the articles ?

From a reader's point of view, you should keep .overview in their own
partition or at least in a separate tree to avoid slow lookups for your
NNTP clients...
-- 
Ollivier ROBERT   -=- Eurocontrol EEC/TS -=-   Ollivier.Robert@eurocontrol.fr
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