[Samba] Filesystem for Samba server

[Bradley W. Langhorst]

On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 06:53, Donal Byrne wrote:
> Thanks Yura, bust any reason why ext3 would be better?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yura Pismerov [mailto:ypismerov at tucows.com]
> Sent: 08 October 2002 22:53
> To: Donal Byrne
> Cc: 'samba at lists.samba.org'
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Filesystem for Samba server
> 
> 
> 
> 	ext3 is probably the best choice.
> 	
> 
> Donal Byrne wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > Sorry if this is a stupid question (bit of a newbie). I'm building a
> Samba
> > > fileserver on a box with a hardware raid array of about 65GB which I'm
> > > hoping to share out to the local LAN . I was wondering if the filesystem
> > > used (ext2,ext3, reiserfs etc) on the partition where the Samba shares
> > > will reside makes much of a difference? I'd obviously like to use a
> > > journalling filesystem but can't seem to find any info to guide my
> choice.
I think you should use XFS - 

1) it is well supported by sgi
2) it is mature
3) it is fast 
4) it is in use on such large filesystems already
5) acls are native

I saw somewhere in this thread that someone was considering a 12 disk
raid 5. I'd suggest splitting this into a couple of raid5s and use LVM
if you need the space to be contiguous. I've found that performance is
optimal with about 5 disks 

brad