In our shop, we are all windows and started with CIFS, so it's old hat to us. We picked up http for image grabs on a web based app about a year ago or so. As far as performance and usage, we have had little to no problems with cifs. The only "issue" I can think of is one time when we had a temp need for space, we dropped an oracle DB on cifs and a drive was failed during that period of time and cifs hiccupped for a few seconds, which oracle did not like. This was on an R200(sata) filer. I don't personally feel that cifs has a lot of overhead and performance issues that will slow down your environment, "just because it's cifs and it's scary".

I could speak to more specific questions, if you have any.

Thanks, Michael NTTA/IT http://www.ntta.org 214.461.2033

-----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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