RE: CIFS vs NFS performance. - toasters

30 Aug 2005

      I've been using NFS and CIFS on filers for years now and I've never
noticed any significant problems with CIFS performance.  Honestly, the
main reason we went with netapps initially is we needed an appliance
that could simultaneously serve files over NFS and CIFS with some
support for cross-platform file-locking.
One caveat is I personally would not recommend using Mixed Mode for
security, personally, but that may be just me.
-- 
Michael W. Sphar - IS&T - Lead Systems Administrator
SMBU Engineering Support Services, BMC Software

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com]
On Behalf Of Jerry
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 12:27 PM
To: list toasters
Subject: CIFS vs NFS performance.

Here's the story... Lately I've been getting a lot of
requests for CIFS services on my filer.  Until
recently I have been able to avoid a lot of windows
interaction but that time is coming close to an end.

Does anyone have any major issues with CIFS, does it
kill CPU and how reliable is it in general?  Basically
I'm looking for an overall feeling.  The reason I ask
is I'm unimpressed with the HTTP daemon built into the
filer and I'm not confident in it's abilities to do
other things besides NFS without personal experience
with it.

Jerry

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