Hi all, I am exporting cephfs using samba. It is much slower over samba than direct. Anyone know how to speed it up? Benchmarked using bonnie++ 5 times either directly to cephfs mounted by kernel (v4.18.6) module: bonnie++ -> kcephfs or through a cifs kernel-module-mounted (protocol version 3.02) Samba (v4.8.5) share on the same machine. bonnie++ -> Samba -> kcephfs Abbreviated results for 5 runs: kcephfs: min max file created 555 619 files/sec sequential block input: 106.44 108.13 MB/sec sequential block output: 102.82 110.61 MB/sec (There is a gigabit network between the client and the ceph cluster, so the block in/out is pleasing.) samba -> kcephfs: min max file created 4 5 files/sec sequential block input: 22.85 29.5 MB/sec sequential block output: 27.95 30.01 MB/sec The block input/output is okay fast, but the files created per second is low. Anyone know how to tweak Samba to speed it up? Would Samba vfs_ceph speed up access? At the moment vfs_ceph in Debian depends on libceph1 10.2.5, so not too modern. Current Samba settings: [global] dns proxy = No hostname lookups = Yes kerberos method = secrets and keytab logging = syslog@1 /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 100000 panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d realm = PHYSICS.WISC.EDU security = USER server signing = required server string = %h server workgroup = PHYSICS fruit:nfs_aces = no idmap config * : backend = tdb [smb] ea support = Yes inherit acls = Yes inherit permissions = Yes msdfs root = Yes path = /srv/smb read only = No smb encrypt = desired vfs objects = catia fruit streams_xattr fruit:encoding = native Thanks! Chad. _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com