Next Back
#38 11:48:00

• Server design
  
  
  • Spool server machines are high-end servers with external disk shelves (2 shelves x 9 drives x 18GB for text, 4 x 9 x 50GB for binaries, 1 SCSI bus per shelf)
    
    
    • Take small portion of each data drive, stripe and mirror, to create a relatively small but very fast /news partition optimized for history lookups
      
      
    • History lookups are not a serious issue, and compared to the traditional Usenet storage model, are quite fast in comparison