From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Aug 27 0:50:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from sanson.reyes.somos.net (freyes.static.inch.com [216.223.199.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90A8237B43C for ; Sun, 27 Aug 2000 00:50:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tomasa (tomasa.reyes.somos.net [10.0.0.11]) by sanson.reyes.somos.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id DAA44352 for ; Sun, 27 Aug 2000 03:42:08 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from fran@reyes.somos.net) Message-Id: <200008270742.DAA44352@sanson.reyes.somos.net> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "FreeBSd Chat list" Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 02:43:54 -0400 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.10.2010) For Windows 98 (4.10.2222) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Future of NFS? Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On my search for ipx/netware support on FreeBSD I bumped onto the smbfs(SMB filesystem) client at freebsd.org/~bp. Basically a way for a FreeBSD machine to access a CIFS (previously know as SMB) volume. This got me thinking about how this would affect NFS long term. In particular I am interested in performance. At work I did some mini-benchmarks comparing netware, NFS on sun with a NFS client on NT and a FreeBSD box running samba. In order of fastest to lowest I got Netware, NFS, Samba. I am a newbie on Samba so I don't know what settings I need to change yet.. I know FOR SURE that I must have something wrong. I don't recall exact details, but I tested both writing to and reading from all these servers.. the samba test was 12 seconds one way and 3 minutes the other way. Obviously I must have something very wrong.. The tests on the readme of the smbfs client imply that a samba/smbfs combo is faster than a win95 server, but that is almost to be expected. What would be interesting is to see how this client compares to NFS and an NT server, specially with Samba properly configured. francisco Moderator of the Corporate BSD list http://www.egroups.com/group/BSD_Corporate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message