ARGH! I'm wondering if airing thoughts about VFAT performance publicly was a good idea.
I was only interested from a technical point of view - I would NOT recommend using it on a production server unless there happened to be a real case for using it. The biggest thing to bear in mind in your case is that VFAT does NOT support ACLs or disk quotas. It also doesn't support journalling and it also has some strange case-sensitivity behaviour. At the risk of sending someone else off on completely the wrong track, how about we write ourselves our own FS specifically to give the best possible performance for Samba? ;) Mark Lidstone IT and Network Support Administrator BMT SeaTech Ltd Grove House, Meridians Cross, 7 Ocean Way Ocean Village, Southampton. SO14 3TJ. UK Tel: +44 (0)23 8063 5122 Fax: +44 (0)23 8063 5144 E-Mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: www.bmtseatech.co.uk ======================================================================== == Confidentiality Notice and Disclaimer: The contents of this e-mail and any attachments are intended only for the use of the e-mail addressee(s) shown. If you are not that person, or one of those persons, you are not allowed to take any action based upon it or to copy it, forward, distribute or disclose the contents of it and you should please delete it from your system. BMT SeaTech Limited does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the context of this e-mail or its attachments which arise as a result of Internet transmission, nor accept liability for statements which are those of the author and not clearly made on behalf of BMT SeaTech Limited. ======================================================================== == -----Original Message----- From: Simon Oliver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 July 2004 14:06 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Samba] best filesystem choice for samba (was: new user cannotlogon) I am setting up a Samba server and am uncertain as to which filesystem to choose. The consensus seems to be XFS but I'm not sure how proven this filesystem is (I know SGI have used it since Irix 6.5 but that's a different OS). I want the filesystem to be available via both CIFS and NFS. I need quotas and would like acls, but most of all want a fast reliable system. Reports indicate that ext2/3 is particularly slow, especially for long file listings and many people complain have corruption issues with reiser (nut maybe that's RedHat only). Recently, someone even suggested using VFAT! I'd like to hear your thoughts and experiences with the various filesystems, especially with regard to using them with Samba and/or NFS. P.s. The filesystem will be on hardware RAID5, with a hardware RAID1 root filesystem. I've heard that it makes sense to place the log file on the RAID1 partition - I carried out some simple tests but couldn't detect any difference in performance with XFS no matter where the log file is. -- Simon Oliver -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
