From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hans Reiser Subject: Re: Reiserfs with Samba vs NetApp Filer (purely performance) Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 02:21:52 +0300 Message-ID: <3DFBBD10.5000408@namesys.com> References: <3DFBA067.5040601@namesys.com> <20021215001126.J2727@vestdata.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <20021215001126.J2727@vestdata.no> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format="flowed" To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ragnar_Kj=F8rstad?= Cc: Richard Sharpe , darren , 'Russell Coker' , reiserfs-list@namesys.com Ragnar Kj=F8rstad wrote: >On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 02:34:06PM -0800, Richard Sharpe wrote: > =20 > >>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 confirm= s=20 >>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=20 >>two choices. >> =20 >> > >What kind of benchmarks, and what were the results? > > =20 > >>If you choose to use Samba, you will want to make sure that the sendfile = >>stuff is implemented. Unfortunately, the directory indexing in Reiser doe= s=20 >>not help that much a lot of the time because Samba is forced to do=20 >>directory scans because it has to implement case-independent=20 >>lookups/searches. >> =20 >> > >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.... > > > =20 > There is quite a lot that could be done to optimize for Samba, but=20 nobody is sponsoring it unfortunately. Seems like some money could be=20 made by a clever appliance vendor....