Samba4 Hardware Question

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Thu, 2013-12-12 at 18:29 -0500, Andrew LaPierre wrote:
> Do most people have their file storage (for Users, like for Folder
> Redirect) local to the Samba4 server?  In the past, with Samba3, I've
> always had my Samba server be a small VM that mapped a large file store via
> NFS.  Since Samba4 requires ACL, and I can't seem to get ACL to work over
> NFSv4 (and not totally clear on if it should work or not), should I use
> iSCSI, or create local storage?  Thanks for your advice.

You should avoid re-sharing NFS via samba where you have any better
option.  Create local storage or use iSCSI would be my recommendation. 

Andrew Bartlett

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