Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!ima!necntc!jeff
From: jeff@necntc.nec.com (Jeff Janock)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: /usr/spool/news on >1 fs?
Summary: oldnews can be on a different fs than spool/news
Message-ID: <24517@necntc.nec.com>
Date: 6 Jul 88 18:16:50 GMT
References: <161@hawkmoon.MN.ORG> <4276@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu>
Organization: NEC Electronics Inc.  Natick, MA 01760
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In article <4276@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> fair@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (Erik E. Fair) writes:
>
>4. Use expire to archive expired netnews into a different partition.
>	I've never done this, but I assume that it is possible

This is what we do on necntc; ie.  /usr/spool/news (80MB) is on one FS,
/usr/spool (50MB) lives on another and /usr/spool/oldnews yet another.
(Ultrix lets us cut up the disk any way we choose; a real win here)
[I should note that /usr also lives on a different partition]

This all works out quite well.  We archive /usr/spool/oldnews (~30MB)
(to tape) when the partition reaches a certain capacity (ie. ~90+%)
This allows us to make good use of the TU80 1600bpi tape which will
write ~30MB on a single tape.

This also lets us keep /usr/spool and /usr/spool/news in logically
distinct areas for administrative reason such as ease of restore :-)

Also, these partitions actually live across several disk drives to
reduce the possibility of lossage even more. (and get some opposing
disk access as the UDA50 is pretty slow...)

Comments on the above welcome.   Now a question:
Has anyone tried mounting a FS as /usr/spool/news/.rnews to prevent
any news loss when spool/news fills up? 

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