Re: NFS vs. SMB

On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Jamie Hushower wrote:

> I have frequently used SMB (Samba) for Linux to Linux transfer because
> it was already setup for Windows access to those servers and the
> transfers were of less than 20MB. I am investigating copying ~200GB of
> data periodically and am testing an NFS connection. Initially, things
> appear to be moving much faster than with SMB. Any evidence, anecdotal
> or otherwise, that indicates how much faster NFS is?

I haven't done comparisons of CIFS vs NFS in aeons, so I can attest to that,
but I have recently discovered that large file throughput was significantly
increased by choosing tcp over udp for transport. If you're running a recent
enough kernel give that a try.

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Received on Wed Apr 21 10:34:10 2004