[gpfsug-discuss] SMB access speed

[Jonathan Buzzard]

On 29/04/16 17:22, Laurence Alexander Hurst (IT Services) wrote:

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> I wonder if Unity uses what used to be called the "gnome virtual
> filesystem" to connect.  It may be using it's own implementation that's
> not such a well written samba/cifs (which ever they are using) client than
> the implementation used if you mount it "properly" with
> mount.smb/mount.cifs.

Probably, as I said previously these desktop VFS CIF's clients are 
significantly slower than the kernel client.

It's worth remembering that a few years back the Linux kernel CIFS 
client was extensively optimized for speed, and was at on point at least 
giving better performance than the NFS client.

JAB.

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