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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.erols.net!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.idt.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-pen-16.sprintlink.net!news.van.rns.net!news.tvinet.com!amd40.wecs.org!amd40.wecs.org!duane From: duane@amd40.wecs.org (Duane Eddingfield) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Virtual file systems for news on FreeBSD Date: 15 Dec 1996 05:59:37 GMT Organization: A FreeBSD box. Lines: 22 Message-ID: <590449$9g@amd40.wecs.org> References: <32B007C2.714C@unilog.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: dial18.tvinet.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32673 Björn Sjöholm (bear@unilog.se) wrote: : Hello, : I would like to use a FreeBSD as a news server and plan : to attach _a lot_ of disk to it. : I would like to have _one_ spool partition/file system for : news with many disks in the same file system. : Is this possible with FreeBSD now? : or will there be support for this in the future? Just fire up ccd, man ccd(4) and ccdconfig(8) for a start. I am running 2.1.5R and INN-1.4sec from the ports on a Dec Prioris server with 4 3GB Quantum FireBalls configured as ccd0e, mounted under /var/news. Works excellent!! fsck even works :-) -- Duane Eddingfield My real e-mail address is: duane@tvinet.com Powered by FreeBSD Real UNIX for free!