Distributed File System and IIS

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From: Stefan Lauer (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 04/07/04

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    Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 02:02:18 -0700

    Hi everyone,

    I have three Windows 2000 advanced Servers in a load
    balancing cluster. I have installed the distrubuted file
    system for the three servers to replicate the webfiles on
    the servers. Now here is my question: which is the more
    performant way to enter the home directory in the IIS manager.
    Is the there a better performance on the website when you
    enter e.g. e:\wwwroot\files\ or is the reqeust faster when
    you enter \\domainname\wwwroot\ which ist the
    distributed file system path.
    I think with \\domainname\wwwroot\ you have the advantage
    of fault tolrerance which you have not when you enter
    e:\wwwroot\files\. when there is a failure local on
    e:\wwwroot\files then on this server you will get an error.
    But when \\domainname\wwwroot\ is entered I think the site
    gets the files from one of the others server.

    But I'm not sure how the entry \\domainname\wwwroot as
    homediretory is handled. When a user reqeust this page
    where did the files come from? the local system or from one
    of the other servers.
    But the main point is what is more performant: when you
    enter the files local in the iis or as the global
    distributed file system mapping \\domainname\wwwroot.

    It's a long posting I know but I hope someone has some
    answers. So thank you for reading and answering in advance.

    Regards
    Stefan

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