We use OpenSolaris in production as well. You just have to be careful about qual'ing it yourself. Watching the lists for a while after a build is released is a pretty good way to determine stability. Both b72 and b77 have been good and stable builds for us.
Vis-a-vis the CIFS server, I believe it should be much better performing due to being in-kernel. Also, it handles Windows IDs and permissions VERY well when combined with ZFS. This is always a sticking point with Samba. The CIFS server should also handle parallel UNIX and Windows permissions on the same shares I believe. Samba always has to deal with SIDs not being understood by the underlying OS and therefore being second class citizens. I don't think anyone outside the OS community realizes what a huge deal the CIFS Server in OpenSolaris is. Best Regards, Jason On 12/13/07, Ché Kristo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've been searching and trying to read up on this as > > much as possible but I just can't find the answer... > > > > What benefit does CIFS provide over samba for home > > users that really don't require any security and just > > want a basic "file dump" server? > > > > (As you've no doubt seen my previous posts, all I > > care about is setting up the fastest file server > > possible to serve to my Windows machines). > > > > CIFS sounds nice but it's only available in Solaris > > Express so I'm assuming it's only beta and still > > experimental? > > Correct it is still in express so shouldn't be considered prod > ready...however last I heard Joyent were running of express so I wouldn't > like to call it Beta quality. > > > Do I even need CIFS? Would it improve network file > > performance or do anything else for me? > > Perhaps using Windows SFU on the windows client and connecting to an NFS > share will be a little easier for you. > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > storage-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss > -- Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
