Re: [gentoo-user] SMB/CIFS or NFS?
On 4/20/2011 9:21 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: Okay, I'm combining the portage distfiles dir into a storage server. Problem: the storage server is Windows 2003. Question: should I mount the distfile dir using SMB/CIFS or NFS? Is there any performance and/or complexity issues? My own anecdotal experience thus far has been that CIFS, out-of-the-box, outperforms NFS and just generally works better when the underlying OS is Windows. (Caveat: I have not used NFS Services in 2008, only 2003R2 and SFU). As far as complexity: if you are running Windows 2003 R2 then NFS Services are built-in, and once you start the services, creating and managing an NFS share through the UI is basically the same as creating and managing a CIFS one, except for the differences in how the security model works. Setting up CIFS on a Linux client is simple enough, and also not that much more complex than setting up NFS. If you're running Windows 2003 non-R2 and want NFS, you'll need the Services for UNIX component, at which point I would contend it's not worth the effort. --Mike
Re: [gentoo-user] SMB/CIFS or NFS?
On 4/20/2011 6:21 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: Okay, I'm combining the portage distfiles dir into a storage server. Problem: the storage server is Windows 2003. Question: should I mount the distfile dir using SMB/CIFS or NFS? Is there any performance and/or complexity issues? I'd recommend avoiding NFS if possible. I've always found it painful to get working and touchy after the fact. kashani
Re: [gentoo-user] SMB/CIFS or NFS?
On 4/21/2011 2:15 PM, kashani wrote: On 4/20/2011 6:21 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: Okay, I'm combining the portage distfiles dir into a storage server. Problem: the storage server is Windows 2003. Question: should I mount the distfile dir using SMB/CIFS or NFS? Is there any performance and/or complexity issues? I'd recommend avoiding NFS if possible. I've always found it painful to get working and touchy after the fact. kashani ... in a Windows and Linux environment. Figured I should add that to be clear. kashani
Re: [gentoo-user] SMB/CIFS or NFS?
On 04/20/2011 06:21 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: Okay, I'm combining the portage distfiles dir into a storage server. Problem: the storage server is Windows 2003. Question: should I mount the distfile dir using SMB/CIFS or NFS? Is there any performance and/or complexity issues? Thanks in advance. Rgds, I have noticed better performance in straight copies from NFS on my Windows SBS 2003, but I have had some trouble getting UIDs to map correctly on the linux end. Admittedly, though, I haven't gone to a great deal of effort to map every Windows user to a UID. I haven't tested rsync, but cp did go much more quickly on the files I was looking at (few, 2GB files). -Andy
