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#! rnews 1933 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!uunet!not-for-mail From: kadow@komondor.cig.mot.com (Kevin Kadow) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,news.admin.technical,news.software.nntp Subject: Re: Poor performance with INN and FreeBSD. Followup-To: news.software.nntp Date: 3 Mar 1996 01:59:49 -0500 Organization: Motorola Cellular Infrastructure Group Lines: 22 Sender: zorch@ftp.UU.NET Approved: zorch@uunet.UU.NET Distribution: world Message-ID: <199602292319.SAA01686@po_box.cig.mot.com> References: <311F8C62.4BC4@pluto.njcc.com> <4gij7n$pmm@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4go23v$8hp@fozzie.sun3.iaf.nl> <4gqvs8$7u@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: ftp.uu.net Summary: rewrite... Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:14793 news.admin.technical:1343 news.software.nntp:20296 In article <4gqvs8$7u@uriah.heep.sax.de>, J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: >Geert Bosch <geert@fozzie.sun3.iaf.nl> wrote: >I doubt anybody will be bothered enough to rewrite a file system from >scratch just for news servers. :) (Almost everything else doesn't >have more than a few hundred entries per directory.) I don't know- I've been contemplating rewriting the entire operating system just for news servers- perhaps this is a market for the makers of the FASwerver dedicated NFS fileserver to get in to... Of course, I was thinking more along the lines of a log filesystem with the overviews stored in a separate SQL-oriented database, indexed by message-id, starting sector, and group:article#. Once the filesystem has been filled, the oldest articles are automatically overwritten as new messages are added to the spool. Want to add more capacity? Stripe the data in one 'newsfs' across multiple drives. Need to have different expiration times for different group hierarchies? break the spool into separate 'newsfs's by group.