FTP is sort of like the single file version of NFS. Although there is a
module out there called ftpfs, it still has to open a connection for
every file, listing, etc whereas NFS is an actual file system meant for
high loads and strain but no security (like ftp) unless you pipe over an
ssh conn (sftp).
Go NFS!
On Fri, 2002-08-16 at 13:27, Kevin Geiss wrote:
> well, first of all, NFS will preserve user and group ownership of the
> files, as well as ALL the file attributes. with samba, you only get the
> owner and the time stamp, I don't think you get any group attributes.
>
> For performance, all I can offer is a testimonial. I was about to
> reinstall windows 98, back in the bad old days when I still had a windows
> machine at all. I had set up samba to do drive share. I ended up with a
> large .zip file I wanted to save before reinstalling, so I started copying
> it to one of the drive shares that were on my linux machine. The file was
> big, I think a couple hundred megabytes. I started doing other stuff, then
> after a while started wondering why it was still copying. I watched the
> rate the data was getting to my linux machine, then calculated it would
> take 10 hours!! so then I installed an ftp client and ftp'd the file
> in 10 minutes (i have a 100mb ethernet). granted, I'm no samba expert,
> so perhaps the samba setup on my linux box wasn't optimal.
>
> My seat of the pants comparison of nfs vs. ftp is that ftp is faster,
> but certainly not 60 times faster than nfs.
>
> On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 09:56:36AM -0700, Kurt Granroth wrote:
> > On Friday 16 August 2002 08:16 am, Kevin Geiss wrote:
> > > Definitely use NFS for file sharing! It is much higher performance than
> > > samba.
> >
> > Do you know of any research or papers that back up this subject? I've been
> > trying off-and-on for the past few months to find ANY reason to use NFS
> > over SMB and cannot find one. I keep hearing that NFS is "better" in this
> > way or that.. but no actual proof of it.
> >
> > Surely there must be *some* tests done comparing the two...
> > --
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