Here's a really interesting paper from Intel that they recently brought to my attention. http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/windows-client-cifs-behavior-can-slow-linux-nas-performance Looks like using XFS for your Linux Samba server, or setting "strict allocate = yes" can make a big difference due to sparse file issues. Comments welcome ! Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
