At 13:25 12.07.2000 -0700, you wrote: > > 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). interesting: speeding access up with nntpcache and slowing it down with NFS - who will win ? with best regards Christian Krackowizer schuler technodat GmbH Jakob-Haringer-Strasse 6 A-5020 Salzburg Phone: +43(0)662/2282-0 FAX: +43(0)662/2282-9 e-Mail: ckrackowiz@std.schuler-ag.com
