> I found a unused harddrive and an old pc. Is only a P3 but it > should work for testing purposes. To make testing easier I will > try Xen hvm with the file server too.
until nov 2008 i ran a piii/600 fileserver with 18g scsi disks. performance was good, but was limited by some poor choices when setting up the filesstems, a poor nic, a small memory cache and by the extra scsi-to-ide copy from the worm to the cache. still, a kernel compile was ~15-20s. have not tried testing the fileserver on xen or any other virtualizer. i used a soekris box for testing last time. - erk
