From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 11 17:16:33 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBF3716A4CE for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 17:16:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from forrie.com (forrie.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.45.106]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34A1B43D49 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 17:16:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from forrie@forrie.com) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (i-99.forrie.net. [192.168.1.99]) (authenticated bits=0) by forrie.com with ESMTP id iABHGFBd097718 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 12:16:18 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from forrie@forrie.com) Message-ID: <41939E5F.3000208@forrie.com> Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 12:16:15 -0500 From: Forrest Aldrich User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9+ (Windows/20041106) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-RAVMilter-Version: 8.3.0(snapshot 20010925) (forrie.ne.client2.attbi.com) X-MailScanner-LocalNet: Found to be clean Subject: Using USB2.0 hard drives (performance) on FreeBSD 5.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 17:16:33 -0000 I need extra disk space on one of my machines (in short order). So I decided to experiment with attaching a USB2.0 hard drive (Maxtor OneTouch) to the system (SIIG PCI controller). I use a OneTouch on my Windows/XP sytem and it works really well. I wanted to explore placing my mailstore on an external USB2.0 drive - would be easy to port the data to another system if I needed. However, in experimenting with replicating some data (via rsync), I'm wondering if this is a bad idea. While rsyncing data over the wire to the USB2.0 drive (mirroring some data, basically), the shell response to something like "ls" would hang (eventually completed, but much later). I wonder if someone can advise about the use of this drive for that purpose (mailstore) and if there may be some tunables I would need to tweak to get better performance. Thanks.