Re: Advice: NFS vs SMB - looking for the voice of experience

[Jonathan Dill]

Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> I'd much rather use NFS than SMB.  It's generally far more efficient.
> However, God only knows how much crap an NFS server running on
> MS-Windows would have to work against, so it might be that it actually
> takes longer to run.

I recommend running some I/O benchmarks eg. bonnie with a 100 MB or 256
MB file over NFS then over SMB.  My experience has been that Sun PCNFS
is incredibly slow, but some other NFS implementation on NT might be
faster.

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"Jonathan F. Dill" ([EMAIL PROTECTED])