On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 04:46:45PM -0500, Douglas Mosman wrote: > I'm planning to add a drive to my file server share but I wonder if it > will be too slow? > > Here's my setup > > sda2 - root (everything except /home) > hde2 - /home > sda3 - unused (14GB) > > using Samba to provide fill access to network clients > > My plan is to assign sda3 under the /home directory for network file > access. Specifically, I'd like to assign it to my private share. > > /home(hde2)/foo(sda3) > > While I haven't tried it yet, I'm assuming it should work. Also, I can > still keep my Samba assignments simple (currently I just have public and > the generic "home" shares). > > HOWEVER, will the system be accessing both hde2 (for /home) and sda3 > (for /home/foo) for every file access? Or will it know where /home/foo > is and directly access sda3 without traversing first to /home (hde2)? Regarding disk access, it will go directly to /home/foo. florin -- "If it's not broken, let's fix it till it is." 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020408/4a9bdcef/attachment.pgp