[Samba] suggestions for a "fast" fileserver - 1G / 10G

[Christopher Chan]

On Tuesday, March 25, 2014 12:55 PM, Linda W wrote:
>
> Someone mentioned Redhat is going with XFS for their servers -- so is
> Novell/Suse.  If you need more reliability on XFS, you can get it by
> reducing the caching and writeback delays -- until you have it down to
> the performance of ext3/4.  But if you have a reliable system and power
> (UPS), XFS is well worth the trade off.  But if you have heavy I/O
> inflight all the time as with a heavily used MTA, it might be better to
> go solid-state anyway, not to mention MTA's aren't XFS's forte -- it was
> build to support heavy I/O of uncompressed video and sound recording and
> production -- it was build for speed for large files (large back then,
> when it was  initially designed, in the early 1990's, was in the MB-GB
> range)... mail messages.. are generally smaller and wouldn't benefit
> nearly as much as other loads...
>

The best thing to do is to profile and then simulate workloads on the 
various filesystems to see which works best or meets the requirements.