>From: "Jon Plews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>
>> I just burned a series of CDs using images mounted on NFS. I had really
>> questioned doing this, since the machines are not dedicated, the packets
>> go through many routers, etc, but it worked.
>>
>> I note this because there was some discussion of things like this some
>> time ago. I measured the worst case observed performance by doing a
>> series of 5MB reads at 20 sec intervals. The worst observed case was
>> ~5.5x data rate, so I burned at 4x (speed=4) and it worked fine.
>>
>> While I don't recommend this practice, it is sometimes useful, and
>> faster than pulling a copy of each image to the machine with the burner.
>I've had excellent result over NFS with both ISO9660 images
>and audio CDs. The network is switched 100baseTx and not
>too heavily loaded though (and no routers).
Should be really no problem.
BTW: If you use Burn-Proof aware burners, networked I/O is no problem
at all.
>The burning machine was fairly low-powered (P5/166 64M FPM
>DRAM) at the time and runs four SCSI burners at 4x. The
>NFS server and burning machine are running Linux.
In general when using Networked I/O and with Linux servers in special,
you should do tests before.
I remember 1-2 years ago, there was at leas one specific ETH-card
that would cause a Linux NFS server to freeze if more than ~ 1 GB
has been transferred. This may have been fixed now....
J�rg
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