[Samba] Calculating file size.

[José Luis Tallón]

At 19:04 18/06/2003 +0100, David Gilligan, Nyfix O'seas, Inc. wrote:
>OK.  Maybe the 'not-so-sure' was a bit provocative on this list. <G>
>
>As I can't afford a 'Filer', Samba is ~obviously~ my best option.
>
>WinXP reports the same figures though - maybe the answer is another DLT
>drive direct onto the (New-Improved!) Samba box; rather than mapping drives
>to the W2K backup server.
>
>Nevertheless, the sizes can't be *real* - according to the stats my drive is
>3 times bigger than it was when I bought it!
>Point taken on the journaling FS.



>Can anyone compare small file performance
>between RH ext3 and ReiserFS?

ext3 - 0 ; ReiserFS - 5   ;-D

ext3 makes no provision for small files at all, while ReiserFS is specially 
optimized towards that goal.


>Made me think - thanks for the input
>
>-DG
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jose Luis Tallon [mailto:jltallon at adv-solutions.net]
> > Sent: 18 June 2003 6:06 PM
> > To: dgilligan at nyfix.co.uk
> > Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
> > Subject: Re: [Samba] Calculating file size.
> >
> >
> > At 17:13 18/06/2003 +0100, you wrote:
> > >Hello!
> > >As it happens I am having some real nightmares with this too.
> > >
> > >Using NETGEAR ND520 NAS devices [Yes! I know - rod for own back...]
> > >But the fact it is a Linux device sold me ahead of a W2K Appliance
> > >
> > >[snip]
> >
> > If those S-O-D figures are real ( I mean, W2K is not making them up ),
> > you'd rather use ReiserFS for your Linux Samba server -- it would
> > save you
> > *tons* of disk
> >
> > >Sure, I'll be obseleting these NAS soon but my plan was to build a custom
> > >Linux Samba server to handle the task.  Now I'm not so sure....
> >
> > Why ?
> >
> >
> > >-DG
> > >
> > >IT Manager
> > >ISV
> > >
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