Re: INN error message I don't understand

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From: Michael S. Shappe
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 20:25

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In article <1isho3INN1mb@rodan.UU.NET> Rich Salz, rsalz@rodan.UU.NET
writes:
> Most people believe that it is best to have the spool directory be a
local
> filesystem on the same host where innd or relaynews resides.  They
believe
> this to be even more true of the lib directory.  Nobody can directly
point
> fingers at NFS bugs or (mis-)features that cause problems, but
experienced
> sys admins are generally very paranoid about doing this.  Just a data
point.

From my own standpoint, I cannot, as you say, point to anything specific
about NFS that would make me consider it a Bad Idea. It's mostly just a
general impression of NFS' brittleness that makes me unwilling to put
upon either the protocol or my network the sort of load that News would
generate for it.../mss1

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