[INN-COMMITTERS] inn (TODO)
Alex Kiernan
alexk at demon.net
Mon Jan 6 09:47:25 UTC 2003
"Marco d'Itri" <md at Linux.IT> writes:
> On Dec 28, Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> wrote:
>
> >Modifying innfeed to generate a header-only feed is pretty trivial; the
> >only hard part is puzzling out where in innfeed to do it. I think people
> >have even posted patches before.
> I don't think so. Alex Kiernan once announced he was working on it but
> never posted a innfeed patch.
We abandoned it once we figured out that it would suffer from the same
problems as xrefslave with respect to arrival time stamp mangling
(NEWNEWS is *very* important to us).
> >What's the main obstacle to using nnrpd for reading? The need to
> >replicate the spool to each of the reader hosts?
> Yes. I have been burned by using NFS once and I will not repeat this
> error soon.
> INN will not be suitable for large server clusters until it will be able
> to populate the history+overview from a headers feed and get the articles
> on demand with a NNTP pseudo-spool method.
>
The idea I'm currently toying with is to use Spread
(http://www.spread.org/) to manage memory coherency across the reader
cluster.
--
Alex Kiernan, Principal Engineer, Development, THUS plc
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