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* [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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Pandu E Poluan - IT Optimizer
My website: http://pandu.poluan.info/



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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
  2 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
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
  2 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
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
  2 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
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
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
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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