George Dimitriadis <dimitria@forthnet.gr> writes: > Probably not possible...but would be nice....many proxies to this > in order to save space (instead of using ICP).... There's no reason to presume that nfs is going to be more efficient than nntpcache natively, so the only reason you want to do this is to distribute load. nnptcache can share the cache, but you will need to do this by creating a symlink from the `local' nntpcache cachedir to the shared cache dir for each upstream news-server. The reason you need to do this, is that some other state is saved in the cache dir (stats, history file etc). e.g, orginally (excuse the 132 col format): root@nntpcache1:/usr/local/var/nntpcache# ls -F VERSION cache.history cache.history.pag nntpcache.pid.DEFAULT:119 cache.base cache.history.dir news.vicnet.net.au./ nntpcache.stats root@nntpcache2:/usr/local/var/nntpcache# ls -F VERSION cache.history cache.history.pag nntpcache.pid.DEFAULT:119 cache.base cache.history.dir news.vicnet.net.au./ nntpcache.stats nntpcache2 after merge: root@nntpcache2:/usr/local/var/nntpcache# ls -F VERSION cache.history cache.history.pag nntpcache.pid.DEFAULT:119 cache.base cache.history.dir news.vicnet.net.au.@ nntpcache.stats root@nntpcache2:/usr/local/var/nntpcache# ls -l news.vicnet.net.au. -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 4276 Jul 13 04:57 news.vicnet.net.au. -> /nfs/nntpcache2/usr/local/var/nntpcache/news.vicnet.net.au. You should also configure all but one of the nntpcache machines to have infinite expiry, for obvious reasons. Cheers, Julian.
