[ale] Request for info on mknod -- or How I ran out of devicenames

[Bjorn Dittmer-Roche]

On Sun, 7 Mar 2004, Greg wrote:

> It is just a home fileserver - with some mp3s and such on it.  I am still
> trying to rebuild it from the RH 7.3 --> Libranet 2.8.1 migration.  It runs
> samba and is used mainly as a software RAID 5 backup for all of the home
> machines (wife has to have her game configs and Favorites backed up !!)
>
> I guess that after I get it finished I could run some tests ... especially
> since I suspect that my harddrives are not taking advantage of the UDMA 133
> that they should be on (the dmesg states something like they both are at
> UDMA 133 *and* pio) - so that is something to do after I get it finished.

Cool. I once jammed a half a dozen disks in a machine and put them all on
seperate controlers and the performance sucked. (but I had a lot of drive
space!)

	bjorn