On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Michael MacIsaac wrote: > I asked this yesterday but didn't get a reply, perhaps because the list > server was down: > > > A customer was asking - is anyone doing LARGE Samba servers in production > - in the range of 10-20TB or more? > > > > If so, what type of issues come up as the data sizes grow large? What > architectures work well? Is there a recommended maximum TB or > users/server? > > > > Thanks. > > If people with large Samba data stores could reply, it might help convince > a big customer to move off Windows to Linux. Thanks again.
The biggest single impact on performance is the number of files in a directory. Large numbers of files in one directory will slow samba down to a crawl. I am unaware of ANY impact of file system size on performance, other than number of directory entries. - John T. -- John H Terpstra Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
