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From: robert@tabby.kudra.com (Robert Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Any INND/Satellite solutions
Date: 19 May 1997 20:50:54 GMT
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Kurt Schafer (kschafer@cyberbeach.net) wrote:

: Also, if I want to use 4 4gig drives for a news spool, is there any
: significant performance hit if I use ccd to combine the drives into a
: logical unit ? Is this in fact the preferred procedure ?

Yep, a big one.   Expect substantially better performance.
just remember to use a large (65536) stripe size for a news spool.
for further info search the FreeBSD mailing list archives
for any of Joe Greco's posts on the subject.


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Robert Sexton - robert@kudra.com, Cincinnati OH, USA
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