innd on linux?

[bill davidsen]

In article <Pine.OSF.4.43L0.0208091322020.97756-100000 at web2.tcd.ie>,
Paul Reilly  <pareilly at tcd.ie> wrote:
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| Is RH Linux up to the job of running a innd news server?

Yes, but IMHO their precompiled INN is not. I suggest getting the source
and building, include large file support, put the buffers and stuff
where you want them, etc.

Unless it's fixed in 7.3 RH still builds a perl intended for 2.2
kernels, without large file support. cnfsstat will not work with large
files unless you build your own. You can just keep all of the cycbuffs
less than 2GB, of course.

| If so what filesystem should I be looking at?
| (I'll be using cyc buffs for storage so maybe this is irrelevant)

It probably doesn't matter, you will not be creating a lot of files
if you use cycbuffs. If you crash a lot you probably need ext3 to speed
reboots.


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bill davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.