Distributed File System and IIS

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\ for an website 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