[geeks] Solaris newfs question

[Rob]

The problem with removing alt.* is that it's really the main way you get
new offical moderated newsgroups. alt.* is just a newsgroup testing
ground. alt.binaries.* on the other hand is a waste IMHO but some people
dig'em.

- Rob

On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Eric Dittman wrote:

> > >  > >  > > >Should work, no?  c1t0d0s7 is a 478GB FC-AL attached RAID array.
> > >>  >>  >
> > >>  >>  > should be newfs, mkfs does strange things on solaris.
> > >>  >>
> > >>  >>  So I see....its newfsing right now.
> > >>  >
> > >>  >Filesystem              kbytes    used     avail capacity  Mounted on
> > >>  >/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s7    494172520   65553 489165242     1%    /local2
> > >>
> > >>  DAMN.  Can I have some storage please Santa??
> > >>
> > >
> > >Its for a usenet news server, so it'll be full in just over a day.
> >
> > Thats sick... The amount of storage and bandwidth used by usenet is
> > insane.  I'm amazed it hasn't collapsed like IRC has.
>
> If alt.* went away there'd be a lot less storage and bandwidth
> used.  Actually, just getting rid of alt.binaries.* would help
> a lot.  Getting rid of the spammers would help, too, but there's
> not any efficient way to do that.
> --
> Eric Dittman
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