thanks. I will give samba a try! Today I just started with the hardware for my new (probably ebox) server... when I tested it I let you know my experiences Andreas
Am Freitag, 16. Oktober 2009 14.25:00 schrieb Radoslav Dejanović: > Andreas Dick wrote: > > 1) speed (I think samba is much slower than NFS, maybe this is not longer > > valid? > > > NFS is faster than SMB in many cases, but these days it isn't such a big > difference, unless you handle large files (>1GB), where the performance > difference begins to be noticeable. > > > 2) file attributes are different > > > I think Samba team never ever intended to copy all possible Unix > attributes and flags, but the basic set (user, group, other) is working > well. > > > > 3) special characters in filenames are handled different (was a mess in > > the past, how is it now?) > > > Unicode saves the day. ;-) > > > On the ohter hand, if you setup and use ONLY samba shares, it could work > > as you expect, but you should test it first! > > > As long as there are no special issues with mounted drives (for example, > if all drives are intended to be used as simple Windows shares in Domain > or as part of a Workgroup), there should be no issues with that. > > > (I plan to setup ebox from the scrach as well, and samba is as well an > > option, but all my NFS files must be converted and I expect a hard job) > > > I think you should just check the attributes for anything that Samba > can't support; you can still export a directory as NFS volume and Samba > share at the same time; keep in mind, however, that there might be > issues with attributes, and you will not be able to control NFS via eBox > (and you might end up fixing LDAP manually, too); on the other hand, > there should be no problems with file locking or any other system issues. > > _______________________________________________ > ebox-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ebox-platform.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ebox-user > _______________________________________________ ebox-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ebox-platform.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ebox-user
