On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 02:34:06PM -0800, Richard Sharpe wrote: > If those are your choices, then I would rank them: > > NetApp F870, Linux with ReiserFS and Samba, Win2K > > John Terpstra has done some testing with a modified cifs_bm which confirms > that Linux with EXT2/3 or ReiserFS outperforms Win2K on the same hardware. > > However, my testing of the NetApp suggests it will outperform the other > two choices.
What kind of benchmarks, and what were the results? > If you choose to use Samba, you will want to make sure that the sendfile > stuff is implemented. Unfortunately, the directory indexing in Reiser does > not help that much a lot of the time because Samba is forced to do > directory scans because it has to implement case-independent > lookups/searches. Isn't that an configuration-option? As a sidenote, I think it wouldn't be too hard to make reiserfs optionally case-insensitive, but still able to use indexes. Perhaps it would even be possible to have two virtual directories pr traditional directory? one that has a regular index and one that has a case-insensitive index. Of course this is not relevant for the right-here right-now choice of fileservers, but.... -- Ragnar Kj�rstad
