[Samba] suggestions for a "fast" fileserver - 1G / 10G

[DNK]

On Mar 31, 2014, at 3:28 AM, Bjoern Meier <bjoern.meier at gmail.com> wrote:

> hi,
> 
> 2014-03-24 9:45 GMT+01:00 Emmanuel Florac <eflorac at intellique.com>:
>> Le Sat, 22 Mar 2014 12:37:15 +0100 vous écriviez:
>> 
>>> I'm looking for some recommendations for a "fast" fileserver regarding
>>> the hardware you use.
>>> 
>> 
>> What is your disk subsystem like? What filesystem, with which mount
>> options? Any server I've setup in the past 3 years routinely achieve
>> 110 MB/s with samba on GigE, 600 to 800 MB/s using 10 GigE.
> 
> this was very interesting, because our Samba 3.6 with ext4 has a limit
> with 8mb/s in a 1GigE.
> So I have installed a test-machine with Samba 4.1.
> 
> with ext4: 40 MB/s
> with xfs: 110 MB/s
> 
> so the data is pretty accurate.

To get these speed boosts with XFS, are you guys running the OS on XFS as well, or just a data partition that samba is sharing out? I know squat about XFS, and this thread has prompted me to look into it more.,

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