Storage method advice

Heath Kehoe hakehoe at avalon.net
Wed Jul 14 18:49:15 UTC 2004


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On Jul 14, 2004, at 8:28, Jonathan Arnold wrote:

> I'm setting up a small, private news server (FreeBSD) and was wondering
> what the current thinking is on the storage and overview methods is. I
> was thinking of going with 'timecaf' for storage and 'ovdb' for the
> overview method, but was a little concerned with the warnings about
> being more untested than the other methods, as mentioned in INSTALL.
> Is this still true?

I don't know about timecaf, but it's no longer true of ovdb, IMHO.
I've been running ovdb on my production server for years.

> Like I said, I'm just running a private news server, with no feeds at
> all.  Supporting maybe a few dozen reader/posters, using a fairly
> fast hard drive.
>
For such a small server, I recommend that you use tradspool and
tradindexed.  I'm assuming you won't have more than a few thousand
articles, so it won't be worth the overhead incurred by ovdb.
Even with tens of thousands of articles, the trad* methods are
sufficient.

- - Heath
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