[Cialug] Best Local SAN performance

[Dave Hala]

I wouldn't discount just because we run linux.  Everyone has a couple of
windows machines somewhere.

On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 1:32 PM Jared Brees <fromj2sitsme at msn.com> wrote:

> I have far fewer issues connecting to SMB shares than NFS shares from my
> Linux boxes. It's on my to-do list to convert my NFS share to an SMB share.
> SMB is far from "only" being useful with Windows clients. One of the things
> SMB does better (in my opinion) than NFS is access control.
> https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/b5ba8t/nfs_vs_samba_whats_the_trend_nowadays/
> - you've got more options with SMB.
>
> You can always use everything mentioned.... make the backplane iSCSI, have
> the server serve up AFP + SMB + NFS, throw in WebDAV, FTP if you wanna get
> crazy.
>
> If you don't care about multi-user or multi-machine (simultaneous) access,
> and all of your potential clients are Linux... sure, NFS is probably best.
> But the performance gap really isn't much in most cases:
> https://blog.ja-ke.tech/2019/08/27/nas-performance-sshfs-nfs-smb.html
>
> Also, you mentioned this is for your dev machines... wouldn't a Git server
> be better suited to that?
>
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> From: Cialug <cialug-bounces at cialug.org> on behalf of L. V. Lammert <
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> Sent: Friday, June 19, 2020 12:48
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Best Local SAN performance
>
> On Fri, 19 Jun 2020, Scott Yates wrote:
>
> > The only caution i would give with regards to SMB would be
> > filepermissions.  NFS is probably the safest bet if your clients are
> > linux.
> >
> Agreed, .. SMB is only useful with Windoze clients.
>
>         Lee
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