Frustrated at futile attempts and no responses to requests for info I
downgraded my box to Dapper 32 bit and am happy to report Slimserver is
working fine and I've not had any issues with web access.
One thing that really surprised me was just how fast a full scan of my
audio library was -- inside 10 minutes whereas the same scan from a
windows box takes over an hour (2408 albums with 34215 songs by 1008
artists). Is NFS really THAT much quicker than CIFS?
What's the storage on, a NAS? NFS mounts are served from kernel space, SMB/CIFS mounts are served from user space -- that will make a big difference to the anemic system board an a COTS NAS. The client-side mounting is done in kernel space for both types. SMB has a more complex security model, which leads to more permissions checking, but I think the real difference is heritage. NFS was designed pretty much from the ground up to support a thin-client, roaming profile model dating back to the early 1980s. SMB/CIFS was not, and while it does support the thin-client, roaming profile model, it does so as a bolted-on afterthought.
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"I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin,
So across the Western ocean I must wander" -- traditional
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