Re: 4kbyte sectors on new disks

2012-10-27 Thread Eric Shubert
On 10/19/2012 05:07 PM, Michael Butash wrote: I was curious if anyone else is using the new 4096 byte drives vs. the old/standard-for-ever disks effectively under linux? I've bought almost exclusively hitachi drives for years, but as far as smart reports I've had 2 separate disks recently

Samba/FTP slow write fast read

2012-10-27 Thread George Toft
Spent several hours researching this one - can't find a solution. I hope someone here can hit me with a clue-by-four. CentOS 6.3 64-bit virtual running under VMware 2.0.2 fresh install with FTP/Samba/NFS running. I copied 500+GB of data from the old computer to the new one using NFS at full

Re: Samba/FTP slow write fast read

2012-10-27 Thread George Toft
Further investigation shows it's not FTP nor samba. It's Windows 7 (which I used for Windows file and FTP). Using smbclient on a Linux box I get 19MB/sec and FTP from Linux I get 32MB/sec. Concurrent with replacing the old file server was the purchase of a new PC. I guess we know what XP