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From: chilton@MCS.COM (Christopher Hilton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Best platform for INN server?
Date: 8 Mar 1995 09:47:49 -0600
Organization: /usr/lib/news/organi[sz]ation
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References: <199503020229.SAA11325@kitana.org> <1995Mar5.161801.26168@wavehh.hanse.de> <3jd3n7$q9@sundog.tiac.net> <3jd77t$f9g@ionews.io.org>
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In article <3jd77t$f9g@ionews.io.org>,
Christopher B. Browne <cbbrown@io.org> wrote:
>
>In article <3jd3n7$q9@sundog.tiac.net>, Rick Kelly <rmk@tiac.net> wrote:
>>Martin Cracauer (cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de) wrote:
>>
>>Somewhere there is a wonderful world with electricity that never fails.
>>
>>I guess it must be Finland.
>>
>>We have a fairly large newsfeed where I work. Owing to the availability
>>of hardware, I am forced to keep the newspool, /usr/local/news, and all
>>other news related data on one large hard disk. With asynchronous writes
>>I would be forced to recreate the news system every time the power went
>>out, or if there were a spike or brownout.
>
>How much would it cost to install a UPS big enough to handle that?
>
>If it's a relatively small box (e.g. - 250W), then the *proper* answer
>is to put on a $300 UPS, which ought to solve both of those problems.
>
I have a $300 UPS on my computer. It handles spikes, surges, and dips
quite nicely. It handles power outages for about 10 minutes.
Last time the power failed in my Area (ChicagoLand, USA) it was out
for four hours. Lets see, a backup generator to provide 250 watts for
my computer in that case would cost... ...more than the computer. I'll
take the safe filesystem. If I was in the middle of spooling news at
that time and my news filesystem wasn't "safe" I would have been hosed.
I have a question. The FreeBSD 2.0 filesystem seems to be as fast if
not slightly faster then then Linux filesystem on the same machine.
What changes were made in FreeBSD 2.0 to accomplish this?
C.
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Christopher Sean Hilton E-mail: chilton@mcs.com
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