Path: utzoo!utstat!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!math.lsa.umich.edu!math.lsa.umich.edu!emv From: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) Newsgroups: news.software.nntp Subject: Re: NNTP or NFS for sharing news? Message-ID: Date: 19 Jul 90 00:44:28 GMT References: <1990Jul18.233115.25423@phri.nyu.edu> Sender: usenet@math.lsa.umich.edu Organization: University of Michigan Math Dept., Ann Arbor MI. Lines: 21 In-Reply-To: roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu's message of Wed, 18 Jul 90 23:31:15 GMT In article <1990Jul18.233115.25423@phri.nyu.edu> roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) writes: 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'd do strictly NNTP, that's one less mount point on all your clients. If at some point you want to run all your news on a 3/50 in a closet, you don't have to go around changing everything either. Systems which would not otherwise have to mount that file server / news server won't hang with NFS timeouts if it goes down, they'll just get NNTP server unavailable. Only disadvantage I can see is that 'rn' is somewhat less nice to use as an NNTP client cause it doesn't automatically notice new news; depends on what people are used to. --Ed Edward Vielmetti, U of Michigan math dept comp.archives moderator