Re: [Samba] filesystem of choice?

2011-06-27 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 6/27/2011 12:42 AM, Christ Schlacta wrote: just requires some special consideration. I still install through apt-get install, and it works flawlessly. it's much like a lot of driver packages where you still have to compile them to make them work, it just does it auto-magically. If these

Re: [Samba] filesystem of choice?

2011-06-27 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 5:10 AM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: On 6/27/2011 12:42 AM, Christ Schlacta wrote: just requires some special consideration.  I still install through apt-get install, and it works flawlessly.  it's much like a lot of driver packages where you still have

Re: [Samba] filesystem of choice?

2011-06-26 Thread Christ Schlacta
ZFSonLinux is very nearly production ready, and I'm preparing to deploy it soon on a home server. Just a few minor niceties missing for now, but all the essential features are in place, and the bugs are only trickling in and nothing major's come up in a while. I'd certainly not trust it to a

Re: [Samba] filesystem of choice?

2011-06-26 Thread Jeremy Allison
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 01:09:38AM -0700, Christ Schlacta wrote: ZFSonLinux is very nearly production ready, and I'm preparing to deploy it soon on a home server. Just a few minor niceties missing for now, but all the essential features are in place, and the bugs are only trickling in and

Re: [Samba] filesystem of choice?

2011-06-26 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 6/26/2011 3:09 AM, Christ Schlacta wrote: ZFSonLinux is very nearly production ready, and I'm preparing to deploy it soon on a home server. Just a few minor niceties missing for now, but all the essential features are in place, and the bugs are only trickling in and nothing major's come up

Re: [Samba] filesystem of choice?

2011-06-26 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 6/26/2011 5:13 PM, Jeremy Allison wrote: On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 01:09:38AM -0700, Christ Schlacta wrote: ZFSonLinux is very nearly production ready, and I'm preparing to deploy it soon on a home server. Just a few minor niceties missing for now, but all the essential features are in

Re: [Samba] filesystem of choice?

2011-06-26 Thread Christ Schlacta
On 6/26/2011 15:13, Jeremy Allison wrote: On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 01:09:38AM -0700, Christ Schlacta wrote: ZFSonLinux is very nearly production ready, and I'm preparing to deploy it soon on a home server. Just a few minor niceties missing for now, but all the essential features are in place,

Re: [Samba] filesystem of choice?

2011-06-26 Thread Christ Schlacta
On 6/26/2011 17:18, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 6/26/2011 5:13 PM, Jeremy Allison wrote: On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 01:09:38AM -0700, Christ Schlacta wrote: ZFSonLinux is very nearly production ready, and I'm preparing to deploy it soon on a home server. Just a few minor niceties missing for now,

Re: [Samba] filesystem of choice?

2011-06-25 Thread Linda W
Jeremy Allison wrote: On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 03:16:00PM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote: On 24/06/11 09:46 AM, John G. Heim wrote: I'm setting up a new linux fileserver and I was wondering if samba likes one filesystem more than another. I have to format a 1.8Tb partition sometime today and I'll

Re: [Samba] filesystem of choice?

2011-06-25 Thread Linda W
Linda W wrote: No, it was originally developed over SunOS ufs. I did the xfs work when I was @ SGI doing the 64-bit Samba port, so it's one of the older supported filesystems though. Jeremy. Sorry, I've been suitably disillusioned FWIW, I was at Sun for 6 years

Re: [Samba] filesystem of choice?

2011-06-25 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 6/24/2011 5:31 PM, John Drescher wrote: I would use 'xfs'. I believe samba was originally developed over xfs, so it's likely the ea-suppot and acl support has had the most testing there. Especially if your file server is setup with a UPS, then I'd strongly recommend it. If not,

Re: [Samba] filesystem of choice?

2011-06-25 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Linda W (sa...@tlinx.org): I regret misinforming anyone. I don't think you did..:-) You mentioned xfs as a very well supported FS and we later were reminded that its support was developed by Jeremy. I think this is compliant with XFS is very well supported and one can rely on this

Re: [Samba] filesystem of choice?

2011-06-25 Thread Grant
On Jun 25, 2011, at 1:32 AM, Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.org wrote: Quoting Linda W (sa...@tlinx.org): I regret misinforming anyone. I don't think you did..:-) You mentioned xfs as a very well supported FS and we later were reminded that its support was developed by Jeremy. I

Re: [Samba] filesystem of choice?

2011-06-25 Thread Charles Weber
I have a ~100 TB multi server multi SAN XFS/Samba deployment and have been using it since early fedora core days. EXT4 is now where I would consider using it instead of XFS. But with XFS and LVM I have trivial and very quick formatting, partition resizing and partition duplicating. It has been

[Samba] filesystem of choice?

2011-06-24 Thread John G. Heim
I'm setting up a new linux fileserver and I was wondering if samba likes one filesystem more than another. I have to format a 1.8Tb partition sometime today and I'll probably do ext3 unless samba prefers something else. We have a lot more linux users than Windows users but the Windows

Re: [Samba] filesystem of choice?

2011-06-24 Thread Gary Dale
On 24/06/11 09:46 AM, John G. Heim wrote: I'm setting up a new linux fileserver and I was wondering if samba likes one filesystem more than another. I have to format a 1.8Tb partition sometime today and I'll probably do ext3 unless samba prefers something else. We have a lot more linux

Re: [Samba] filesystem of choice?

2011-06-24 Thread Aaron E.
I vote for ext4 also, we have been running on that for a few years with no issues.. On 06/24/2011 10:22 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 24/06/11 09:46 AM, John G. Heim wrote: I'm setting up a new linux fileserver and I was wondering if samba likes one filesystem more than another. I have to format a

Re: [Samba] filesystem of choice?

2011-06-24 Thread Linda Walsh
On 24/06/11 09:46 AM, John G. Heim wrote: I'm setting up a new linux fileserver and I was wondering if samba likes one filesystem more than another. I have to format a 1.8Tb partition sometime today and I'll probably do ext3 unless samba prefers something else. I would use

Re: [Samba] filesystem of choice?

2011-06-24 Thread John Drescher
       I would use 'xfs'.  I believe samba was originally developed over xfs, so it's likely the ea-suppot and acl support has had the most testing there.  Especially if your file server is setup with a UPS, then I'd strongly recommend it.   If not, ext4 might be safer (with write through).  

Re: [Samba] filesystem of choice? (app-dependant, but I prefer xfs for larger files)

2011-06-24 Thread Linda Walsh
John Drescher wrote: � � � �I would use 'xfs'. �I believe samba was originally developed over xfs, so it's likely the ea-suppot and acl support has had the most testing there. �Especially if your file server is setup with a UPS, then I'd strongly recommend it. � If not, ext4 might be safer (with

Re: [Samba] filesystem of choice?

2011-06-24 Thread Jeremy Allison
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 03:16:00PM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote: On 24/06/11 09:46 AM, John G. Heim wrote: I'm setting up a new linux fileserver and I was wondering if samba likes one filesystem more than another. I have to format a 1.8Tb partition sometime today and I'll probably do ext3 unless