RE: [seul-edu] CD Server

[Harry McGregor <micros@azstarnet.com>]

You could have a slight performance hit on ext2, but if you were using
FAT, it would be a performance increase, due to not fragmenting.

Also since you are just using the file system to hold them (try and keep 
them on a dedicated partition), it should be a very minimal hit.  You
are actualy accessing the ISO filesytem directly, with the iso image
just residing on the ext2 file system.

Also compaired to a CDROM drive, it will be FAST (especialy if you use
something like an IBM 22gxp IDE drive, or an IBM Ultrastar 18es U2W scsi 
drive).

			Harry

On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Mark Orenstein wrote:

> One more question about doing the ISO9660 image of a CD to a file.  Is there
> a performance hit doing a file system within a file as compared to just
> copying the files on the CD to a directory on the hard drive?
> 
> Mark Orenstein
> 
>