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[ProgSoc] NFS vs Samba
Hi all,
Firstly, thanks to Nathan for the excellent suggestion of Clarkconnect for my
new router/fileserver box, it's working perfectly. However, that does give
rise to my next question. I've got a 280gb ext3 LVM partition on the new
machine which I need to share to the computers on my network. Most of these
are windows boxes (plus one xbox), basically meaning that they need to use
samba to talk to the server's share. However, my desktop is a linux/windows
dual boot (running linux most of the time, naturally), meaning I've got a
choice there over mounting the share as an smbfs/cifs partition, or using nfs
to mount it.
Based on the absolute insistence of Myles that Samba "craps all over" NFS and
does absolutely everything NFS does, I first just set things up using cifs.
However, I've run into two problems:
- Firstly, it's slow. Not horrible, but it tops out at about 6MB/s on my
100mbit network, well below what one would think it "should" be.
- Secondly, it doesn't seem to quite do everything and allow working as if the
mount were just another drive. In particular when I recently tried to start
a new bittorrent download into the shared partition (uh... I needed some
linux ISOs) azureus refused, claiming "directory creation
failed /mnt/myshare/mydir (allocateFiles
new:/mnt/myshare/mydir/myfile)" (with names changed of course).
I've since set up NFS, and have to say I'm quite happy with it. It tops out
at about 12MB/s, so basically my full 100mbit, and the azureus download
problem appears to have gone. However, if I'm just doing something wrong and
can save bring Samba up to that level, saving me from having to run two file
serving protocols, I'd much rather do that. I've done some quick googling
about with no luck so far, and thought I should ask here, since someone,
particularly Myles, may well have some suggestions. Hell, even if I can't
solve this problem, chances are good of serious flaming appearing. So,
anyone run into this sort of thing before?
Thanks in Advance,
--
David Edney
President
UTS Programmers' Society
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