[Samba] Frustrated...Samba on linux w/xfs SLOW problem

[John Dollar]

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John Dollar [mailto:johnnydollar at techie.com]
>
> > Samba used to work fine.  Now, I can copy files out of my linux samba
> > server to my windows machine at full speed.  However, when I try
> > copying a file over 5 or 6 Megs from my windows XP machine (or even
> > in DOS) to the linux samba server, when I watch the activity lights,
> > it starts out at a decent speed for a second, then slows and slows
> > and eventually stops.  I then get the message "The specified
> > network name is no longer available."
>
> Are you getting a lot of collisions when this happens?  This sounds
> suspiciously like a network problem, maybe mismatched duplex settings.
>
> Try FTPing or SCPing a file to the server from your Windows machine.  If
> that transfer is affected as well, it's a network problem, not a Samba
> problem.

I had tried scping and that does work fine.

I tried the following test.  I created a new ext2 file system on the computer, made it a samba share, and turned off all other samba shares except the ext2 one.  I then wrote a 35M file from my windows machine to the linux server.  It worked like it used to.

This seems to prove to me that a) there is no network problem, b) samba is working correctly, c) there is DEFINATELY an issue with XFS and samba.  From what I've read in some other places, it appears there is also an issue with ReiserFS and samba.  What is it with samba that it only appears to like ext2/3 fs's?

Is *ANYONE* using XFS with samba and having it work at a normal rate of speed when writing to it?

Before anyone asks, I also did try mounting a drive from my windows machine via smbclient and copy a file on the linux box from the windows machine.  That works fine, even to the xfs drives.

It seems to me that there's got to be some option in the samba configuration that I just don't have correct.  If someone is currently successfully using linux xfs w/samba, please, share your config!

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