On Mon, 17 Mar 1997, Karl Swartz wrote:
Most people run expire and fastrm on their newsfeed machines. If you choose not to, we'll be happy to sell you more disk! :-) There's also expireover, and whatever other grot gets run from news.daily.
I bet you would. Alas, we're not Dejanews ;)
Hmm.... would it be possible to use two mount points for the same filesystem where one is mounted using NFS v2 and one using NFS v3 and then let ones own software choose whether to do an operation using v2 or v3 depending on what path it tries to open?
With active file renumbering being part of innd, no, not without some hacking on the code. Even for the separate executables, keeping the two straight might prove difficult. Why, though? For news, at least, NFS v3 has little, if any, benefit, and can badly hurt.
Yeah, the presumption was that writes were quicker in v3 but as they aren't, there is no need to use v3 at all. I'll just give it a miss I think!
Thanks for straightening things out.
Regards,
/Ragnar, Algonet