> What is the performance difference between Solaris Express - CIFS and > Solaris 10 using Samba?
AFAIK no one has, so far, published performance comparisons between Samba & CIFS Server. For your application, as a 'home' server, I would guess that hardware factors are more likley to be a bottleneck than software factors. > I'm planning to use a regular hard drive with UFS for booting, and > then 3x 400GB SATA drives for ZFS using RAID-Z for my actually > networked storage. Bear in mind that you cannot (currently) expand the width of a RAID-Z stripe, by simply adding a disk. > The controller card is a Silicon Imaging 3114 which apparently works > if you flash the firmware to remove it's onboard RAID capability. I've seen varying reports with these Silicon Image controllers. They seem ok for some people, but other cannot seem to get them to work reliably. Personally, I would use a motherboard with hardware that supports either the AHCI driver (intel iCH7 chipsets) or the NV_SATA driver (for ck804/mcp55 based chipsets). These drivers are included with Solaris Express (Nevada), but I'm not sure if they have been backported to Solaris 10. > The ethernet card will be a Linksys EG1032 (Realtek 8169 chipset I > think?) which apparently has custom-written drivers for Solaris There is a 'gani' driver, mentioned here: http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/components/details/925.html Personally, I would go with something like an Intel or Broadcom card, as these drivers are built into Solaris, & I think will be easier to get working. Thanks Nigel Smith This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
