[nycbug-talk] FreeBSD 'n CIFS

[N.J. Thomas]

* Peter Wright <pete at nomadlogic.org> [2006-07-11 09:09:23 -0700]:
> are people doing lot's a streaming I/O on your FreeBSD box, or is it
> mostly small read's and writes?  we will be moving a lot of large
> files through this guy (on average 500-1000 500meg files) via gig-e.

AFAIK, it is mostly smaller reads and writes, although some of the devs
use the setup at night to store database repository dumps (~500MiB).

But...I do seem to recall from lurking on the Samba lists that 500MiB,
even a 1000 of them, were not really a problem. In fact, those guys were
writing large files (>2GiB), many of them, and their complaints were
more centered on large file support in Samba than in any performance
degradation from writing several large files. But that was a long time
ago and its a bit fuzzy, but the Samba archives should help.

Thomas

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