On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Andreas <maps.on@gmx.net> wrote:
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.
I use and have used reiserfs for years with zero reliability problems. I regularly do 11MB/s over scp on Linux and about 10 via SAMBA. In fact, I'm going to upgrade to a gigabit switch soon and expect a whole lot faster on the way. ext3 is not a fast file system. I don't use it. I quit using ext2 once SuSE moved to Reiser for default a long time ago. ext4 would be a better alternative than ext3.
Depending on the filesystem I can watch the LAN throughput drop down in optically equal distances. It seems to transfer X MBs then pauses. There were just a couple of segments per ISO. I figure it must be at least 100MB each.
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