[gpfsug-discuss] SMB access speed

Jonathan Buzzard jonathan at buzzard.me.uk
Wed Apr 27 19:57:33 BST 2016


On 27/04/16 14:10, Buterbaugh, Kevin L wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Question - why are you SAMBA mounting to Linux clients instead of CNFS
> mounting?  We don’t use CES (yet) here, but our “rules” are:
>
> 1) if you’re a Linux client, you CNFS mount.
> 2) if you’re a Windows client, you SAMBA mount.
> 3) if you’re a Mac client, you can do either.
>
> (C)NFS seems to be must more stable and less problematic than SAMBA, in
> our experience.  Just trying to understand…
>

My rule that trumps all those is that a given share is available via SMB 
*OR* NFS, but never both. Therein lies the path to great pain in the future.

JAB.

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