On 16 Apr 2003 at 17:08, Ken Walker wrote:
> Has anybody got any past experiences they could pass on about using samba
> and different file systems using a 5 disk raid5.
>
> All files are generally over 20Mb.
>
> Which is the best to use, ext2, ext3 XFS ect.
Testing that I have done over the past year indicate XFS to outperform
ext2 and ext3 in nearly every instance, although the largest file size I
tested was ~10Mb. XFS offers *working* ACL and Quota support out of
the box, something that Ext3 on Redhat didn't when we needed it last
summer. We have one RedHat 7.2 box running samba 2.2.8 serving 400
users virtually troublefree for almost a year now. The only problem
encountered was winbind idmap table corruption during the upgrade to
samba 2.2.8. This system was installed from the SGI installer for Redhat.
We just installed a new samba box using the SGI XFS 1.20 installer for
Redhat 8.0.
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Shawn Wright, Systems Manager
Shawnigan Lake School
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