The context here is not performance, but rather the reliability of NFS vs AFP on Snow Leopard. And a separate comparison for Lion. I know in 10.6 that NFS 4 is pre alpha and seriously flaky. But I'm also finding anecdotally that NFS 3 on 10.6 is flaky compared to AFP, but I'm not sure what this is all about as the user reports on this are next to incoherent on what the setups are. So I think asking professionals or at least serious users is a better way to research this.
All this gets down to using a NAS that has good, standard NFS 3 and 4 support. But not AFP support. Therefore if Mac OS's NFS 3 on 10.6, and either NFS 3 but preferably NFS 4 on Lion, are reliable, that would be good news. But I'm not finding much information on this - as obviously most users just depend on AFP. The usage will be Final Cut Pro using one of the ProRes formats (probably 422 HQ) rather than raw uncompressed, so editing over 1GigE should be possible. So I'm wondering if NFS can be every bit as stable and reliable as AFP. Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
