[geeks] Solaris newfs question

James Sharp jsharp at psychoses.org
Wed Jan 23 13:57:44 CST 2002


> >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.
>

Yeah, it is...but its what's keeping me employed right now.  Everyone
wants a news feed, but nobody wants to haul in a DS3 just for news, so
they put a Cidera dish on the roof.

According to stats here, yesterday's news feed was a total of 350GB of
new articles.



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