From: "Geo." 

"Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
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> Maybe ext3 was not appropriate either?

I can't agree with that, who would setup a file server using redhat and
change the default file system? Is that real common, does RH suggest that
somewhere for file server config suggestions?

I don't think ext3 was any more inappropriate than NTFS, both are suitable
for file systems for a file server. It's the RAID0 setup that is
inappropriate for a data repository.

The correct way to do these benchmarks is pick two guys, one who knows NT
and one who knows RH, give them a lab used to bug test software (lots of
different machines with different hardware) and say go to it. Rate each
machine with each OS and see how the overall results come out.

The reality is in a setup like that, it's not possible to hide the flaws as
that's what a test lab is designed to expose.

Geo.

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