Florin Iucha wrote: >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 > That will work fine. I have three SCSI disks mounted this way: /home /home/dave/Media /home/dave/Docs -- Dave Erickson ( http://www.rightwithgod.org )