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Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 09:22:09 -0500
From: Fred Whiteside <fred@bws.bws.com>
To: Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca>
Subject: Re: iSCSI vs. SMB with ZFS.
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On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 05:22:50PM -0500, Rick Macklem wrote:
> Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote:
> > Does windows 7 support nfs v4, then? Is it expected (ie: is it
> > worthwhile
> > trying) that nfsv4 would perform at a similar speed to iSCSI? It would
> > seem that this at least requires active directory (or this user name
> > mapping ... which I remember being hard).
> 
> As far as I know, there is no NFSv4 in Windows. I only made the comment
> (which I admit was a bit off topic), because the previous post had stated
>  "SMB or NFS, they're the same" or something like that.)
> 
> There was work on an NFSv4 client for Windows being done by CITI at the
> Univ. of Michigan funded by Microsoft research, but I have no idea if it
> was ever released.

	There appears to be an implementation of NFSV4 {client,server} for
Windows available from OpenText (via their acquisition of Hummingbird). This
would not be a free product. I have no experience with their NFSV4 stuff,
so have no comments on the speed...

-Fred Whiteside