From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 16 22: 7:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from builder.freebsd.org (builder.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 538DF37B564 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 22:07:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cfedde@fedde.littleton.co.us) Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (fedde.littleton.co.us [216.17.174.44]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB6C0132E1 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 22:06:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (localhost.fedde.littleton.co.us [127.0.0.1]) by fedde.littleton.co.us (8.10.0.Beta10/8.10.0.Beta10) with ESMTP id e1H672V04952; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 23:07:06 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200002170607.e1H672V04952@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: "Swanson, Toby J." Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" , "'toby@milkyway.org'" From: Chris Fedde Subject: Re: tuning file systems In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 16 Feb 2000 12:26:43 EST." <8C8DCBC7A064D01181F30000F8014E27C2EB5F@knxnorois1b.noh.tva.gov> Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 23:07:02 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Swanson, Toby J." writes: +--------------- | All works well, except a 650 Mb CD turns into 1625 | Mb of data on the hard drive. +--------------- You can continue to reduce the block size but that is not realy going to help when you have lots of small files. Performance on the drive will fall through the floor. Why not just share the cdrom drive? Maybe you can pick up a few cheep scsi cdrom drives and chain them up to an old ISA scsi card and build a data server. __ Chris Fedde 303 773 9134 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message