On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 08:18, WipeOut wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking at setting up a NAS trype server to provide a shared > storage facility to my other servers.. > > So to connect from the Servers to the NAS box I will be using either NFS > or Samba and seeing that it will be a linux only environment I figured > NFS would probably be the way to go.. > > but.. > > From the tests I have done this morning it would seem that Samba is far > faster (3x) than NFS in terms of write speed and about the same in terms > of read speed.. I know that Samba probably comes fairly well optimised > out of the box but I think NFS could probably do with some tuning.. > > I have tried mounting with rsize=8192,wsize=8192 but this didn't make > any difference.. > > Anyone got any ideas or links to good NFS tuning sites.. (the how-to on > nfs.sourceforge.net didn't help me much) > ---- I was hoping to see some interest in this thread as I am about to do the same thing - obvious the permissions on the NAS aren't the same if you use Samba Craig
