What's your usage model? I don't know that it makes a lot of difference, but there may be considerations with static mounts vs. auto mounts, especially for home directories.
FWIW, I run a large network of mixed (mostly Mac) platforms that depend 100% on a back-end NFS setup (based on NetApp Filers), and I've never had a stability or performance problem (at least, once I worked around some early deployment issues). However, I do use static mounts, so the NFS volumes are mounted at boot and stay mounted. I don't rely on automount to mount users home directories at login. Never considered that since it doesn't meet my usage model. I've also followed this model through multiple generations of Mac OS X - I think my first Mac in this setup was running 10.2, right through 10.7. This does also mean that I've not profiled NFS vs. AFP for performance. Since I'm in a mixed environment, and the NetApps don't support AFP, I went straight for an all-encompassing NFS solution that works everywhere. Andrew :) On Apr 2, 2012, at 12:16 PM, Chris Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
