Andreas pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
Hi,
I'm not shooting for an enterprise grade fileserver, mind you. I'd like a save and reasonably fast box for a couple of windows clients. I know SUSE for years and therefore I grabbed a 11.1 DVD and sat up a PC with an SEMPRON 3000, 2GB RAM, a 160 + 300 GB Samsung SATAs that should deliver enough to saturate the 100 MBit-LAN at any time.
It's just, that windows <--> windows transfers tend to fill a 100MBit-LAN nicely with around 10MB/s.
A SUSE or Knoppix on the same machine will yield only about 6-7MB/s with SAMBA and EXT3 and default settings.
OK, I'm a wee bit unfair since SUSE does this on a RAID1. With EXT3 on an unRAIDed partition it pulls around 7-8.
SUSE on an unRAIDed XFS gets 10MBs writing with FTP but only 8-9 with SAMBA. On EXT3 FTP wasn't that much faster than SAMBA. On the other hand I read in wonderfully-wise-web that XFS might be faster than EXT3 but it loses stuff now and then.
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