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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!wraith.internode.com.au!tipellium.apanix.apana.org.au!usenet From: hart@apanix.apana.org.au (Leigh Hart) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: INN, BIG disks, etc. Date: 13 May 1995 04:38:03 GMT Organization: Apanix Public Access Unix, +61 8 373 5485 (5 lines) Lines: 75 Message-ID: <3p1d3b$bsf@tipellium.apana.org.au> References: <3nqjqn$fi@chaos.dac.neu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: seldon.apanix.apana.org.au johnson@chaos.dac.neu.edu (Chris Johnson) writes: > I see that there are people running INN on BSDI systems, say a > pentium for example. And 486's. > Can BSDI handle the new 9 gig disks in a reasonable way? I'd like > to mount most of it as a single partition and not have to worry about > toy inode or file space limits. If you really want to increase performance in your news spool, mount 4 or five 2gb scsi-2's onto various parts of /var/spool/news/[...]. You will find the increase in performance more useful than a single 9gb partition. But to answer your question, yes. BSD/OS 2.0 is based on CSRG's 4.4-Lite, and one of its features is 64 bit offsets, allowing filesystems of up to 2^63 bytes in size. Ie: 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 bytes or over 9 million gigabytes. toy limits like 9gb are history :-P To top it off, you can configure a disk for its purpose as far as inodes are concerned - if you are going to use it for news, then configure 2kb per inode, if you are going to use it for archives (ftp, etc) then configure it for less (eg: 8kb per inode). > Is there any kind of logical disk system in BASI that can build a > logical disk from a number of physical drives? I'm really tired of > symlinks. If you're setting up a system from scratch, define your partitions and mount points how you want them. eg: sd0a / sd0b swap sd0e /usr sd0f /var sd1a /tmp sd1b swap sd1e /usr/local sd1f /var/spool/mqueue sd2a /var/log sd2b swap sd2e /var/spool/news sd3a /usr/ftp sd3b swap sd3e /usr/users etc. No reason to stick to mount points in / :-) > How easy is it to put the usual good stuff up on BSDI, i.e. INN, > sendmail, BIND, Gopher Web servers, etc.? The BSD/OS 2.0 CDROM comes with all of the above pre compiled, each with configuration scripts to help set them up. Their config_www script even creates a homepage for you based on the questions it asks :-) > I'd really like to have a chat about this from real users and not > sales droids. Thanks much. Any help appreciated. I've been using FreeBSD since it came out, BSD/OS (BSDI) is a cleaner, more polished and complete BSD, which is what you pay for :-) I use FreeBSD for home/hobby and BSDI for work. Cheers Leigh -- | "By the time they had diminished | Leigh Hart | | from 50 to 8, the other dwarves | <hart@eppie.apana.org.au> | | began to suspect 'Hungry' ..." | C/- 195 Gilles Street | | -- Gary Larson, "The Far Side" | Adelaide SA 5006 |