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From: karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Distributed Filesystems vs. NNTP at large sites.
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Date: 26 Sep 89 19:10:32 GMT
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In-reply-to: henry@garp.mit.edu's message of 26 Sep 89 18:36:50 GMT
henry@garp.mit.edu writes:
i also don't believe that we are particularly interested in
NFS-mounting /usr/spool/news on one thousand clients (and yes, the
order of magnitude here is correct).
I don't think you'd find it to be that much of a problem. We do this
with ~300 clients, and it works quite well; we anticipate no scaling
problems as we continue to add more machines. We NFS-mount /usr/{lib,
spool}/news from the server (tut.cis.ohio-state.edu) and use the
miniature NNTP inews for posting. All newsreaders are configured to
think they've got a local spool area to read. We play some kinky
symlink games to get the right inews for each machine architecture.
--Karl