On 4/20/2011 9:21 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > Okay, I'm combining the portage distfiles dir into a storage server. > > Problem: the storage server is Windows 2003. > > Question: should I mount the distfile dir using SMB/CIFS or NFS? Is > there any performance and/or complexity issues?
My own anecdotal experience thus far has been that CIFS, "out-of-the-box", outperforms NFS and just generally works better when the underlying OS is Windows. (Caveat: I have not used NFS Services in 2008, only 2003R2 and SFU). As far as complexity: if you are running Windows 2003 R2 then NFS Services are built-in, and once you start the services, creating and managing an NFS share through the UI is basically the same as creating and managing a CIFS one, except for the differences in how the security model works. Setting up CIFS on a Linux client is simple enough, and also not that much more complex than setting up NFS. If you're running Windows 2003 non-R2 and want NFS, you'll need the Services for UNIX component, at which point I would contend it's not worth the effort. --Mike
