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Re: DAT file updates
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Thu, 9 Sep 1999 18:01:52 GMT
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[jsproat@io]ihatespam[.com]
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Todd Lehman wrote:
it.  Disk space is so cheap these days.  In fact,
even at the rate that the news articles have been building up in recent
months, it would still take more than 10 years to gobble up all the
remaining disk space on the server, and that's including the search index.

Todd, I'm curious about these numbers.  Is LUGNET now in the gigabyte
range?  Have you even come close to the point where you need multi-drive
volumes?

Cheers,
- jsproat

--
Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@io.com> ~~~ http://www.io.com/~jsproat/



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  Re: DAT file updates
 
(...) At least he's running a nice OS. Which BSD variant is it? I haven't seen a "what this box is". Does BSD have RAID support? Ciao! (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: DAT file updates
 
(...) I'm not sure what to count when looking at the numbers, but there's about 6 GB of data on the disk, counting the OS and everything. The news system is well under 1GB and all the images and web data are as well. There's lots of gunk and (...) (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: DAT file updates
 
(...) Nah, don't worry about it. Disk space is so cheap these days. In fact, even at the rate that the news articles have been building up in recent months, it would still take more than 10 years to gobble up all the remaining disk space on the (...) (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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