Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1767454AbXECWkW (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 May 2007 18:40:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1767460AbXECWkW (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 May 2007 18:40:22 -0400 Received: from quechua.inka.de ([193.197.184.2]:48303 "EHLO mail.inka.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1767454AbXECWkW (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 May 2007 18:40:22 -0400 From: Bernd Eckenfels To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Ext3 vs NTFS performance Organization: Private Site running Debian GNU/Linux In-Reply-To: <20070503211450.GA3869@nifty> X-Newsgroups: ka.lists.linux.kernel User-Agent: tin/1.7.8-20050315 ("Scalpay") (UNIX) (Linux/2.6.13.4 (i686)) Message-Id: Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 00:40:19 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 951 Lines: 19 In article <20070503211450.GA3869@nifty> you wrote: > For this particular case, Ted is probably right and the only place > we'll ever see this insane poor man's pre-allocate pattern is from the > Windows CIFS client, in which case fixing this in Samba makes sense - > although I'm a bit horrified by the idea of writing 128K of zeroes to > pre-allocate... oh well, it's temporary, and what we care about here > is the read performance, more than the write performance. What about an ioctl or advice to avoid holes? Which could be issued by samba? Is that related to SetFileValidData and SetEndOfFile win32 functions? What is the windows client calling, and what command is transmitted by smb? Gruss Bernd - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/