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From: roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: NNTP or NFS for sharing news?
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Date: 18 Jul 90 23:31:15 GMT
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	I'm installing C-news for the first time on a Sun file server.  I
havn't made up my mind yet whether I want to have all the diskless clients
NFS mount the news spool directory, or if I want them to talk NNTP to the
server.  I already have rrn running on the clients, using a different
server, and I'm going to have to support NNTP on this server anyway (for
news transfer), so it's not a problem of getting the software up.  Given a
free choice between the two methods, which would you pick?  Is either
particularly more efficient in terms of CPU time or network bandwidth?
--
Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016
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