[ale] NFS or Samba?

Michael Hirsch mhirsch at nubridges.com
Thu Jul 25 15:42:44 EDT 2002


On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 15:19, Ryan Neily wrote:
> 
> Has anyone done any performance tests between Samba and NFS mounts?  I am
> currently sharing mounts from my linux box via Samba to my Windoze boxes,
> and it's rather slow.  Would I be better off installing unix tools in 
> Winows or some other NFS facility and sharing drives off my linux box via 
> NFS for better performance?  

NFS is usually pretty bad.  I've heard of places using samba out of
choice instead of samba.  

What kind of performance are you getting?  Remember that most networks
are significantly slower than most disk drives, so will see a
performance hit.

--michael


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