Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265676AbTF2Oy3 (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Jun 2003 10:54:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265686AbTF2Oy3 (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Jun 2003 10:54:29 -0400 Received: from [65.248.106.250] ([65.248.106.250]:34234 "EHLO brianandsara.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265676AbTF2Oy2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Jun 2003 10:54:28 -0400 From: Brian Jackson Organization: brianandsara.net To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: bkbits.net is down Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 10:08:30 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <1056867876.11843.1.camel@sonja> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200306291008.30571.brian@brianandsara.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1614 Lines: 42 I don't really care which is faster, so please don't cc me in any replieds to this thread, I 'm just telling my experience. I've tried OpenGFS on an external firewire hard drive, and I got 13 MB/s(it was read, but it shows that the bus can at least handle that much) on a WD310100 (which is a pretty old 10GB udma33 hard drive). That would probably be even better with ext2 or some fs other than OpenGFS. --Brian Jackson On Sunday 29 June 2003 05:24 am, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote: > Hello Daniel , > > On Sun, 29 Jun 2003, Daniel Egger wrote: > > Am Sam, 2003-06-28 um 22.31 schrieb Alan Cox: > > > I'm testing the USB2 disk idea at the moment. Big problem is > > > performance - 5Mbytes/second isnt the best backup rate in the world. > > > > Which are 300Mbytes/minute, still faster than many tapes. > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > 5MB/Sec is faster than MOST tapes drivs ? Or ??? > If you are talking older scsi-2 or 1 drives yes . > But on a properly tuned system any of the newer tape drives s/b > able beat that hands down . > > > I've also made the experience that IEEE1394 (aka Firewire/iLink) is > > always faster than USB2. > > I'd like to see a raising hands that have this functional at > anywhere near line (60% is close enough) rate ? > Tia , JimL -- OpenGFS -- http://opengfs.sourceforge.net Home -- http://www.brianandsara.net - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/