RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] using loopback filesystems?

["McNutt, Justin M." <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I have found the loopback device to be extremely fast.  Not as fast as true
disk access, since you have to go through two levels of fs, but still very,
very quick.  (I used the loopback for a while when building a custom root
disk image.)

--J

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 9:28 AM
> To: EMAIL:PROTECTED
> Subject: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] using loopback filesystems?
> 
> 
> For simplification I'm putting all my backups into ISO format 
> so that I
> can burn them to cd whenever I want. I was wondering if there is any
> noticable performance penalty for breaking down files into 
> ISO's and then
> mounting them over the loopback filesystem. This way I could 
> have them in
> easy to burn form while still having them available on the 
> system without
> wasting diskspace with duplicate copies. I figure there will 
> probably be
> 25-50 ISO's mounted at a given time.
> 
> *^*^*^*
> Michael McGlothlin <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
> http://www.kavlon.com
> 
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