From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 7 15:30:18 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA02744 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 Dec 1995 15:30:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from netcom11.netcom.com (root@netcom11.netcom.com [192.100.81.121]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA02738 for ; Thu, 7 Dec 1995 15:30:11 -0800 (PST) From: Ruiyuan_Jiang/Advantage_KBS_at_LotusXchg@njcorp.akbs.com Received: from njcorp.akbs.com by netcom11.netcom.com (8.6.12/Netcom) id PAA23730; Thu, 7 Dec 1995 15:28:14 -0800 Received: from cc:Mail by njcorp.akbs.com id AA818389764; Thu, 07 Dec 95 18:29:00 EST Date: Thu, 07 Dec 95 18:29:00 EST Encoding: 12 Text Message-Id: <9511078183.AA818389764@njcorp.akbs.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RAID 5 and Performance Comparison Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk From the FAQ of FreeBSD, it seems that FreeBSD can boot from SCSI device. Does it mean that FreeBSD can boot from RAID 5 system. Currently we are thinking maybe we can use FreeBSD to be a NFS server. Do you have any performance comparison between Netware, Windows NTAS and FreeBSD? Thanks in advance. Ruiyuan Jiang System Administrator Advantage kbs, Inc. rjiang@akbs.com (908) 287-2236