[Gllug] x2 CD anyone?

[John Edwards]

On Wednesday 12 September 2001 13:12,  Kim Hawtin wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> should I expect any problems using low speed CD drives with Linux? I am
> trying to create a couple of CD 'towers' with a mixture of x2 to x8 CDROMs
> running with automount and SUSE 7...
>
> Wayne

Place where I used to work put all of the useful CD up on the network 
but found that CD towers were not really workable (too many CDs), so 
placed them on a set of stripped hard disks. With the current price 
of hard disks you could get a 60GB disk to hold a hundred CD for less 
than a hundred pounds. Probably be cheaper, easier and quicker for you.

As most of the files were large they found that increasing the block 
size above 1k (to 32k I think) gave a good performance boast, but the 
filesystem was UFS on Solaris (which can get rather slow IMHO).


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