>> Server 2 has the export of server 1 mounted and both servers have
>> connection with a dedicated gigabit NIC's and a crosslink. Performance
>> is good, about 35 Mb/sec. when copying files over the export on the
>> console.
>
> uhm.. 35Mb on a 1Gb link is not what I would class as "good" .. did you
> mean 35MB (280Mb, though still somewhat poor)? I frequently get 80Mb on
> a non-raid (sata) nfs mount here..

Well I was/am happy with it and I ment bytes/sec ... the raidset itself 
it not so fast (old hardware and PATA):
/dev/md2:
Timing buffered disk reads:  142 MB in  3.00 seconds =  47.33 MB/sec

What can I do to make nfs mount faster?

>> Server 2 has the mounted array shared with Samba and several Windows
>> clients are connected to this share.
>>
>> Now performance on the Windows clients is sometimes really good, but
>> with multiple clients transferring files, sometimes the share seems
>> "locked" for a few seconds or longer.
>
> samba is suboptimal for file sharing activities..

So I've noticed, but it is an existing samba server and it needs more 
diskspace.

>> I've tried the NFS sync/async settings without result.
>>
>> My question is: Should I configure things different in Samba or NFS or
>> is sharing a mounted nfs share with Samba a bad idea?
>
> might have some gains tweaking the smb.conf "tune" option

What options exactly do you mean?

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Ariën Huisken


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