On Aug 17, 2012, at 6:08 PM, Rodolfo Aramayo wrote: > Hi, > > We are in the process of deploying a small Galaxy server here at Texas > A&M University > I am a GNU/Linux kind of guy > My IT people want to use an SMB-mounted drive share as a backup destination > I am concerned that this might impact the performance of the server as > in my mind the equation is as follows: > SMB=Microsoft=windows=not_GNU/Linux=bad_Idea
Hi Rodolfo, Although this is generally a safe rule of thumb for us UNIXey types, there isn't any reason why it shouldn't work, or why it would definitely perform poorly. There could be a lot of factors - like the hardware/network aren't up to the task. But as a backup filesystem, I can't imagine that copying to that share would greatly impact performance on the Galaxy server, unless it's a really underpowered server. --nate > > But then again I am a geneticist > > Any comments and/or other ideas?? > > Thanks > > --Rodolfo > ___________________________________________________________ > Please keep all replies on the list by using "reply all" > in your mail client. To manage your subscriptions to this > and other Galaxy lists, please use the interface at: > > http://lists.bx.psu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________ Please keep all replies on the list by using "reply all" in your mail client. To manage your subscriptions to this and other Galaxy lists, please use the interface at: http://lists.bx.psu.edu/
