[geeks] Powerbook storage options

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 01:37:14PM -0500, Micah R Ledbetter wrote:
> I'm trying to determine the way to add the fastest external RAID storage to
> the thing. The options that I can see are: network storage (what I'm doing
> now), firewire RAID boxes, and possibly a Firewire-to-SCSI bridge of some
> kind. I have an NFS linux machine right now that feels really, really slow,
> especially for moving a lot of smaller files; if I used AFP from the linux

First thing is that there are certain options that might make Linux
faster.  Check the options on your NFS mounts - the send and receive
windows should be (IIRC) at least 8192 .

> machine would that make things run faster? Also, another thing that I
> thought of was installing a firewire card in my linux box and getting
> 400Mb/sec network connection instead of the PB's 100Mb/sec connection - in

Can you put a Linux box into FW target mode?  If so, that is pretty neat...

--P