[Wylug-discuss] EeePC and Samba

[John Hodrien]

On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Paul Brook wrote:

>> For networks with simple security requirements, NFS is very easy to setup,
>> and is very reliable.
>
> FWIW in my experience NFS is not "very reliable". We have a variety of
> machines with cross-mounted NFS shares, and a NAS-based /home via NFS.
> Pretty much all of them start exhibiting weird problems when you start pushing
> hard[1]. Our new expensive NAS frontend is better than the old cheapy one,
> but it's still not up to production use.

Genuinely this isn't my experience.  NFS is merrily used on large HPC clusters
with heavy demands and performs pretty well.  I've had no problem with
performance under load (multiple clients pulling at >160MBytes/sec combined).

> That said, it's probably good enough for light domestic use and I'm not sure
> SMB/CIFS would be any better.

NFS is *definitely* usable for more than light domestic use.

> [1] Typically workloads include compiler cross-testing, which involves
> compiling tens of thousands of applications, and running these on a remote
> machine via a common NFS directory.

I'd suggest problems with the NAS device rather than with NFS.

jh
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