Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu!karl From: karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: Distributed Filesystems vs. NNTP at large sites. Message-ID: Date: 26 Sep 89 19:10:32 GMT References: <17735@looking.on.ca> <1989Sep20.060201.4473@rpi.edu> <45814@bbn.COM> <155@ora.ora.com> <6270@ficc.uu.net> <757@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Organization: OSU Lines: 14 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