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From: jhupp@gensys.com (Jeff Hupp)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Virtual file systems for news on FreeBSD
Date: 16 Dec 1996 09:01:18 GMT
Organization: Houston Area League of PC Users
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In article <590449$9g@amd40.wecs.org>,
duane@amd40.wecs.org (Duane Eddingfield) bound the electrons into the following form:
: 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 :-)
:
It scales well too. I have 10, 4 gigabyte barracudas on two adaptek
2940 controls configured as ccd0c. Yes, fsck works (with some changes to
limits :)) The original 5 drive array has been working for about 8 months
w/o a glitch and the 10 gig array has been running a month. I am running
FreeBSD 2.1.6 and INN 1.5 with several feeds in and out.
Someone really should package up a news server out of this
configuration ~ the service is so good it's quite forgeable.
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