Phil, One of the things that really spooked me while doing my benchmark tests is the impact made by the file system type. I forgot to make mention of that in my reply.
Ext2fs is by far the fastest file system on Linux. Ext3fs is the slowest, ReiserFS is in between them. One of the things I want to do soon is to benchmark XFS and JFS against Ext2fs and Ext3fs. In tests done recently Ext2fs gives more than 3 times the write I/O throughput of Ext3fs. This should not be construed as critical of Linux file systems, but when one is chasing every ounce of I/O and the file system type becomes a bottleneck then it does matter. PS: This also becomes more critical as the number of Samba users with concurrent write access exceeds 20. - John T. -- John H Terpstra Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba