From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 25 15:17: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail-2.sjc.telocity.net (mail-2.sjc.telocity.net [216.227.56.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 711C237B479; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 15:16:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zoso (dsl-216-227-91-85.telocity.com [216.227.91.85]) by mail-2.sjc.telocity.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA24527; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 15:06:47 -0700 (PDT) From: "Otter" To: "FreeBSD Stable" , "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: RAID/Vinum or Shared MFS... Recommendations? Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 18:14:34 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've been doing some audio editing with an application which runs under a certain name brand monopolistic, bug riddled OS. The files I've been working with are only a couple hundred MB in size. When I had the 10M hub, I knew the SCSI drive would be faster if it were a local drive, so I've been using it as a local drive for some time now. Now that I have upgraded the network hardware to a 100M switch, the network is no longer my bottleneck. It's I/O now. I understand that several drives together on a RAID or vinum drive setup would increase my number of platters, speeding up the read/writes... then I had a vision. When I was in the restroom this morning (where most of my enlightening thoughts occur), I thought about what I had read regarding MFS... that I could make a filesystem in RAM. This being the case, couldn't it also be shared via samba? If this is the case, it would blow away my read/write times that I'm currently getting and the bottleneck would then become the CPU. Correct? It sounds good in theory. Any insight or comments on personal experience would be appreciated. Understand that I don't need a lot of space, just a few hundred MB, so I'm not limited as someone would be for database use. Thanks in advance. -Otter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message