From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3E10198005 for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:53:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 27834E0686; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:53:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ie0-f172.google.com (mail-ie0-f172.google.com [209.85.223.172]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 30309E0675 for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:53:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ie0-f172.google.com with SMTP id c10so3128899ieb.17 for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 06:53:50 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=bMV0a5A1/Oco5d81aVfjRtoNWAw3sODCcAiDL3QGUlE=; b=qUAJDmYjDnHvfj5zXLUUjoExJCG6m513KtLCq30+VGKqpFEbua14NsY5krcBciF9Db GRlUpKdM6E8Q2mgaORIAF9PP03EgwY2uLEGTe7558vfrTBlqVqAi5dniIKt7YO3RhMpl 3EwtcRt6u3oeisQxLefz9SBq4Gh8qJq7wSShi0UExn//lzPlgxwaZSfhs5PPxQON5uK5 9l1FFiJCfJuaQwMFEzTpjeyDPCVd3ynUaTQAPg3GtM5VVfMSQxW6P2Jzlp7jpm94ZtVP Im9KrWt6LN1bkWdsPLfy5gKeN9PQCRyeNO9KxOfuNt+NCUbvZFYtrO2cJg6Vkub2bG9C 6CZw== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.43.18.3 with SMTP id qe3mr3617388icb.12.1361804030431; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 06:53:50 -0800 (PST) Sender: freemanrich@gmail.com Received: by 10.64.21.98 with HTTP; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 06:53:50 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <512B7632.90503@gmail.com> References: <512ACBA1.7090209@gmail.com> <512B10E5.5080408@gentoo.org> <20130225080249.GB2634@gaby.caf.com.tr> <512B7632.90503@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 09:53:50 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 6Me2hmULHzuC3ymwrD7dqYFOnD0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: kerberos, virtuals, rattling cages From: Rich Freeman To: gentoo-dev Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: eae7c59c-6ce9-4a9a-b0fd-03bcc241f706 X-Archives-Hash: ad523062a5f63fc022fd9712f457c6ee On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Linux client invariably whinge at length about how the performance of > samba sucks. I suspect there is more at issue than just performance. I run both samba and nfs (though without kerberos), and have the windows issues you mentioned, and I doubt that you can use samba as a root filesystem (that sounds painful at the very least), which is one of the things I use it for. NFS is just a lot cleaner for linux clients. Rich