[linux-cifs-client] Samba speed
Jeremy Allison
jra at samba.org
Mon Dec 8 18:21:14 GMT 2008
Here's a really interesting paper from Intel
that they recently brought to my attention.
http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/windows-client-cifs-behavior-can-slow-linux-nas-performance
Looks like using XFS for your Linux Samba
server, or setting "strict allocate = yes" can make
a big difference due to sparse file issues.
Comments welcome !
Jeremy.
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