On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 12:07, Tom Buskey wrote: > > SCSI is *much* faster then ethernet. I also don't want the traffic to > go across the net.
If you set both boxes up with its own Ethernet card and just run a crossover cable between the two, you can get full duplex 100Mbit. Should be fast enough to keep up with IDE drives. > Say I'm running a database. NFS file locking doesn't work well. Local > disk locking does & that's what this box would be. Local disk. Wince you're not sharing the DB files with other processes, this may not be a big problem. -Mark ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
