Duncan Robertson wrote: >Also some usage patterns may affect things.. jfs seems to work much >better than ext3 for reading directories with LOTS of files in it, a >situation which not uncommon on large samba shares. > > Ext3 now supports a dir_index option now to help with directories with lots of files; I don't know how it compares to JFS, but performance was at least acceptable when we tried it out.
>jfs file systems can be grown in place (without unmounting) - but cannot >be shrunk. >jfs you can choose the filename encoding on mount, which can effect the >readability of filenames. > >ext3 can be grown and shrunk, but you have to unmount them. > > Ext3 now supports online growing as well. Josh Kelley -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
