[KLUG Members] Samba share with lots of files

[Bryan J. Smith]

Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> ext2 is horribly slow on large directories.  ext3 doesn't help.

There is a patch for Ext2/Ext3 now in testing that drastically
improves large directory list/access performance.

> I've used Reiserfs in production on Squid boxes for along time.
> It is stable enough for that.

As long as I use ReiserFS on non-NFS exported filesystems, it seems
good.  But I usually just go with Ext3 or XFS, because I'm used to
them.

-- Bryan

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