Which filesystem for Samba4?

Which filesystem for Samba4?

Posted Nov 24, 2004 14:25 UTC (Wed) by rl (subscriber, #2336)
Parent article: Which filesystem for Samba4?

The mystery has been solved.

From: tridge@samba.org
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 18:53:47 +1100

You can call off your bsearch - I found the culprit.

For the 2.6.10-rc2 tests I was running with the patch from Andreas that added large ext3 inode support (in order to also test the ext3-256 case). For the -mm2 test I wasn't.

This patch was supposed to have no effect if large inodes were not setup at mkfs time. Unfortunately it does have an affect as it also removes the in-place xattr modification logic from ext3_xattr_set_handle(), so every xattr set becomes the same as a delete+create pair. In plain -rc2 and in -mm2 an xattr set of the same size will be done in-place. As every xattr set is of the same size in dbench3 this made a huge difference.

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