>and searching from portage over nfs is much slower than searching local portage tree...
True, but then you allways do all searches using esearch, (or eix, but I never used that) and in that case you do the search from some form of preindexed database that resides locally. As to the original question, a raid0 will naturally be theoretically faster when reading several small files simultaneously. But depending on bandwidth of your HD-controller, writing might (in theory) be slower if you don't have HW-accellerated RAID. --DA -- [email protected] mailing list
