Using EXT3 to install Win32 software

[Madison Kelly]

I have a customer who runs server-based windows apps off a samba/ext3
share and it is fine. It is a small LAN (6/7 pcs) so I can't say how
well it will scale but as Rob said I can't see it being much faster or
slower than other files systems. 

Madison

On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 09:44, Robert Brockway wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, teddymills wrote:
> 
> >
> > I network mapped drive Z:  which is a samba 2.28a share of a large EXT3
> > partition.
> 
> If you share the data to MS-Windows using samba than the MS-Windows boxes
> are never aware of what filesystem type the data is stored on.  There is
> no problem exporting data via samba which is stored on an ext3fs, infact
> people do it all the time.
> 
> > I would like to install some Win32 software, say Office2002 onto drive Z..
> >
> > Will this work?
> > Is there more overhead with Samba and inodes and EXT3?
> 
> As opposed to? If you want to export the filesystem over a network the
> options are limited - nfs or samba being the 2 mainstream choices although
> their are alternatives.  The performance of the filesystem and samba will
> have to be slower than a native, local, filesystem, but speed isn't the
> reason people use network filesystems.
> 
> If you are wanting to compare ext3 to say, ntfs as a local filesystem
> under Linux, ext3 will come out on top easily as it is a native
> performance optimised filesystem while the ntfs support is meant for
> reading files from time to time.
> 
> Rob
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