Best storage method for reader box

[Bill Davidsen]

Mike Zanker wrote:
> I'm looking for the best compromise between news reader speed and 
> expire times.
> 
> My own experience so far is that tradindexed offers good performance 
> for readers (fast XOVER and NEWNEWS) but can take ages to expire.
> 
> Timecaf gives a relatively quick expire but XOVER is horrendous on a 
> group with a few thousand unread articles.
> 
> How are timehash and CNFS in this respect?

The main advantage of CNFS is that it keeps you from running out of disk 
space. This is such a huge advantage that I next properly tried anything 
else. Well, other than tradindexed when it was the only game in town.

On a reader machine you will probably not like any file per article 
storage under heavy load.


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