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Date:      Tue, 18 Jun 1996 23:45:26 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Subject:   Re: (SMB/Netware/NFS for DOS clients) (was BSD/OS ...)
Message-ID:  <199606182145.XAA09997@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199606181602.JAA16198@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> from "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" at "Jun 18, 96 09:02:11 am"

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As Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com wrote:

> I've always heard that you need _very_ consistent interrupt-free data
> for burning CD's.  I don't think you should *ever* try to burn from a
> remotely mounted drive no matter how fast the server.

You need an average data rate of > 300 KB/s, not very much at all,
even for NFS.  Peaks and temporary dropouts can be buffered with a
user-level caching program like team(1).  You need the latter even for
a local disk.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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