Update: Ext3 vs NTFS performance

2007-09-12 Thread Cabot, Mason B
> Subject: Ext3 vs NTFS performance > > Hello all, > > I've been testing the NAS performance of ext3/Openfiler 2.2 against > NTFS/WinXP and have found that NTFS significantly outperforms ext3 for > video workloads. The Windows CIFS client will attempt a poor-man's > pre-allocation of the file on

RE: Ext3 vs NTFS performance

2007-05-04 Thread Cabot, Mason B
> > Cabot, Mason B wrote: > > I've been testing the NAS performance of ext3/Openfiler 2.2 against > > NTFS/WinXP and have found that NTFS significantly > outperforms ext3 for > > video workloads. The Windows CIFS client will attempt a poor-man's > >

Ext3 vs NTFS performance

2007-05-01 Thread Cabot, Mason B
Hello all, I've been testing the NAS performance of ext3/Openfiler 2.2 against NTFS/WinXP and have found that NTFS significantly outperforms ext3 for video workloads. The Windows CIFS client will attempt a poor-man's pre-allocation of the file on the server by sending 1-byte writes at 128K-byte st