[Samba] Re: what's the best filesystem

James Peach jorgar at gmail.com
Fri Oct 7 07:15:49 GMT 2005


On 10/6/05, Sean W <nameneeded at gmail.com> wrote:
> Actually, I am setting up an Ubuntu 5.04 box tomorrow as a Samba server
> (right after I figure out how to disable the raid controller).  Do you
> suggest xfs?  I've been reading this thread and people seem positive on
> it, but are there negatives as well?

I've never done any IO testing on Ubuntu, so all I can say about it is that I
run it and it works. I don't know what its behaviour will be like
under load. That
is likely to vary between distros as much as between filesystems.

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James Peach | jorgar at gmail.com


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