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Article #16Re: NFS vs NNTP for news reading
From: Geoff Collyer
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 17:37
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 17:37
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Howard Hart: >Don't forget that wonderful feature of NFS when partitions are mounted >read/write (such as the case where you have to mount the news batch >directory read/write for users to post articles). Don't know about >other machines, but on Sun's, if you loose the server, the client >hangs indefinitely [...] I'd strongly recommend NNTP-only. That seems a poor reason to use NNTP for reading. Mount the news spool read-only, and "soft" or "intr", and post via NNTP or rsh. I strongly recommend NFS-only reading (as distinct from posting). -- Geoff Collyer world.std.com!geoff, uunet.uu.net!geoff ``Leave the evil grasping to us.'' - A. L. Arms, UNIX licensing, WECo.
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Newsgroups: news.admin.technical,news.software.b,news.software.readers Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!spool.mu.edu!caen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ames!pacbell.com!tandem!zorch!scott From: geoff@world.std.com (Geoff Collyer) Subject: Re: NFS vs NNTP for news reading Message-ID: <BuDIA3.3C2@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Sender: scott@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Scott Hazen Mueller) Organization: Software Tool & Die Netnews Research Center Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 17:37:14 GMT Approved: scott@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG Lines: 14