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From: Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
Subject: Samba speed
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 10:21:14 -0800
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Here's a really interesting paper from Intel
that they recently brought to my attention.

http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/windows-client-cifs-behavior-can-slow-linux-nas-performance

Looks like using XFS for your Linux Samba
server, or setting "strict allocate = yes" can make
a big difference due to sparse file issues.

Comments welcome !

Jeremy.