My own experience (pair of gentoo boxes, one switch between them,
100mbit ethernet) is that samba peaks around 8 megs/second, and nfs
peaks around 12 megs/second.
Megabytes, that is. I do realize this is slightly higher than 100mbit
networking should be theoretically capable of...
-- Mac
On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 10:56, 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?
>
> -Jamie
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