Maybe this doesn't matter much if there's no performance advantage in general to using v3 instead of v2 of course... Then there's no reason for me to bother about v3 at all as I'm only going to use the NetApp as a newsspool host and nothing else.
I'm going to turn off v3 on our NetApp box tonight, just to see how much of a difference it makes.
Another thing I've been wondering about is options.minra. I find the documentation a bit thin, shall we say. If the 'aggressive read ahead' mentioned in the documentation is *per file*, it's probably a good thing for a NetApp used as a News spool - since you normally retrieve a whole article at a time. If the read ahead is based on something other than file, I'm not so sure.
Anybody played with minra on a NetApp news spool?
Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no