I asked:
> My question is, how much is a system degraded by having its root &
> swap on an external SCSI device rather than the internal SCSI? Is
> the increase in speed (~16ms) in the 207Mb a decent trade for the
> speed gained by having the Quantum internal?
The consensus was that there's *NO* difference whatsoever between
having a disk on the internal SCSI ports compared to having it on the
external SCSI. "It's all the same bus." The rumor I'd been told about
having your swap & root on an internal disk for better performance
turned out to be hog-wash.
So I'm going to go ahead with the move.
Thanks to:
ekrell@ulysses.att.com
oconnor!miker@oddjob.uchicago.edu (Mike Raffety)
matt@wbst845e.xerox.com (Matt Goheen)
John DiMarco <jdd@db.toronto.edu>
Jim Guyton <guyton%condor@rand.org>
etnibsd!vsh@uunet.UU.NET (Steve Harris)
Sun could really learn something from this resource.
Brendan
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Widener University in Chester, PA A Bloody Sun-Dec War Zone
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