Hi list,
A customer was asking - is anyone doing LARGE Samba servers in production -
in the range of 10-20TB or more?
If so, what type of issues come up as the data sizes grow large? What
architectures work well? Is there a recommended maximum TB/server?
Thanks.
-Mike MacIsaac, IBM mikemac at us.ibm.com (845) 433-7061
I asked this yesterday but didn't get a reply, perhaps because the list server was down:> A customer was asking - is anyone doing LARGE Samba servers in production- in the range of 10-20TB or more?> > If so, what type of issues come up as the data sizes grow large? Whatarchitectures work well? Is there a recommended maximum TB or users/server?> > Thanks.If people with large Samba data stores could reply, it might help convince a big customer to move off Windows to Linux. Thanks again. -Mike MacIsaac, IBM mikemac at us.ibm.com (845) 433-7061
> -----Original Message----- > From: John H Terpstra [mailto:jht@samba.org] > Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 1:53 PM > To: Michael MacIsaac > Cc: samba@lists.samba.org > Subject: Re: [Samba] Any LARGE production Sambas? > > The biggest single impact on performance is the number of files in a > directory. Large numbers of files in one directory will slow > samba down to > a crawl. I am unaware of ANY impact of file system size on > performance, > other than number of directory entries.Is that because the underlying OS is slow operating in large directories, or because of Samba overhead? How many is 'Large numbers of'? 100's, 1000's, millions?> - John T.-Steve