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Well, from experience working w/ Mac's for the last 10 years, Appletalk sucks. |
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You won't really get performance out of it, though it's handy, effective, and |
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simple. |
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You could mount via FTP, the finder has a built in client program of sorts, |
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and you can make aliases that way as well. FTP blast's on the LAN, can't |
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imagine what kinda speeds you'll get on a crossover cable. |
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No clue on the gentoo side of things, sorry. |
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Here trying to learn a lot more about it myself! LOL! |
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- Kevin |
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On Sunday 18 September 2005 02:11 pm, P.V.Anthony wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I am new to this list. I have been using gentoo for about three months as a |
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> desktop machine and it is just great. |
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> Now I want to build a video server for two mac workstations doing video |
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> editing. |
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> Please help me in giving some advice. |
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> The server is going to only do this job as a video server. The idea is to |
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> remote mount on the mac using netatalk or nfs. |
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> I am using amd Athlon64 3000 on a MSI Neo 4 Platinum with 2Gb of ram. There |
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> is a Promise Raid card, EX8350, with 8 sata drives as Raid 5. The file |
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> system is going to be XFS. |
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> The two macs are connected to this server using gigabit ethernet, cross |
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> cable. |
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> Which is faster nfs or netatalk? |
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> Any advice on how to setup the USE flags and the compile settings? |
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> The reason on going with AMD64 is so that I can use the 64bit. Hoping that |
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> it would be faster with the hyper-transport. Any advice or gotcha that I |
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> should look out for. |
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> |
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> Please do comment. |
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> |
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> P.V.Anthony |
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