* [gentoo-user] SMB/CIFS or NFS?
@ 2011-04-21 1:21 Pandu Poluan
2011-04-21 1:40 ` Andy Wilkinson
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From: Pandu Poluan @ 2011-04-21 1:21 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Gentoo-user
Okay, I'm combining the portage distfiles dir into a storage server.
Problem: the storage server is Windows 2003.
Question: should I mount the distfile dir using SMB/CIFS or NFS? Is
there any performance and/or complexity issues?
Thanks in advance.
Rgds,
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* Re: [gentoo-user] SMB/CIFS or NFS?
2011-04-21 1:21 [gentoo-user] SMB/CIFS or NFS? Pandu Poluan
@ 2011-04-21 1:40 ` Andy Wilkinson
2011-04-21 17:53 ` Mike Edenfield
2011-04-21 21:15 ` kashani
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From: Andy Wilkinson @ 2011-04-21 1:40 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On 04/20/2011 06:21 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote:
> Okay, I'm combining the portage distfiles dir into a storage server.
>
> Problem: the storage server is Windows 2003.
>
> Question: should I mount the distfile dir using SMB/CIFS or NFS? Is
> there any performance and/or complexity issues?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Rgds,
>
I have noticed better performance in straight copies from NFS on my
Windows SBS 2003, but I have had some trouble getting UIDs to map
correctly on the linux end. Admittedly, though, I haven't gone to a
great deal of effort to map every Windows user to a UID. I haven't
tested rsync, but cp did go much more quickly on the files I was looking
at (few, >2GB files).
-Andy
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* Re: [gentoo-user] SMB/CIFS or NFS?
2011-04-21 1:21 [gentoo-user] SMB/CIFS or NFS? Pandu Poluan
2011-04-21 1:40 ` Andy Wilkinson
@ 2011-04-21 17:53 ` Mike Edenfield
2011-04-21 21:15 ` kashani
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From: Mike Edenfield @ 2011-04-21 17:53 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On 4/20/2011 9:21 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote:
> Okay, I'm combining the portage distfiles dir into a storage server.
>
> Problem: the storage server is Windows 2003.
>
> Question: should I mount the distfile dir using SMB/CIFS or NFS? Is
> there any performance and/or complexity issues?
My own anecdotal experience thus far has been that CIFS,
"out-of-the-box", outperforms NFS and just generally works better when
the underlying OS is Windows. (Caveat: I have not used NFS Services in
2008, only 2003R2 and SFU).
As far as complexity: if you are running Windows 2003 R2 then NFS
Services are built-in, and once you start the services, creating and
managing an NFS share through the UI is basically the same as creating
and managing a CIFS one, except for the differences in how the security
model works. Setting up CIFS on a Linux client is simple enough, and
also not that much more complex than setting up NFS.
If you're running Windows 2003 non-R2 and want NFS, you'll need the
Services for UNIX component, at which point I would contend it's not
worth the effort.
--Mike
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* Re: [gentoo-user] SMB/CIFS or NFS?
2011-04-21 1:21 [gentoo-user] SMB/CIFS or NFS? Pandu Poluan
2011-04-21 1:40 ` Andy Wilkinson
2011-04-21 17:53 ` Mike Edenfield
@ 2011-04-21 21:15 ` kashani
2011-04-21 21:25 ` kashani
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From: kashani @ 2011-04-21 21:15 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On 4/20/2011 6:21 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote:
> Okay, I'm combining the portage distfiles dir into a storage server.
>
> Problem: the storage server is Windows 2003.
>
> Question: should I mount the distfile dir using SMB/CIFS or NFS? Is
> there any performance and/or complexity issues?
>
I'd recommend avoiding NFS if possible. I've always found it painful to
get working and touchy after the fact.
kashani
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* Re: [gentoo-user] SMB/CIFS or NFS?
2011-04-21 21:15 ` kashani
@ 2011-04-21 21:25 ` kashani
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From: kashani @ 2011-04-21 21:25 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On 4/21/2011 2:15 PM, kashani wrote:
> On 4/20/2011 6:21 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote:
>> Okay, I'm combining the portage distfiles dir into a storage server.
>>
>> Problem: the storage server is Windows 2003.
>>
>> Question: should I mount the distfile dir using SMB/CIFS or NFS? Is
>> there any performance and/or complexity issues?
>>
>
> I'd recommend avoiding NFS if possible. I've always found it painful to
> get working and touchy after the fact.
>
> kashani
>
... in a Windows and Linux environment. Figured I should add that to be
clear.
kashani
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