[Samba] samba (vs. nfs) in all unix environment

[rruegner]

Hi, i can only answer to one thing,
if no windows is involved you havent to use smb at all, for mount files via
network.
But i remember that i had to use it with a Linux Coldfusion setup, cause the
cold fusion server
was not able to handle nfs shares.
I think i depends deep in what you want to do with your machines to find out
what protokoll may the best for you.
For courier nfs should be enough, but look here
 http://www.facetcorp.com/competition_nfs_cifs_comparison.html for more info
Let us know your results
Best Regards
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mariano Absatz" <samba at lists.com.ar>
To: "Samba Mailing List" <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 6:28 PM
Subject: [Samba] samba (vs. nfs) in all unix environment


> Hi,
>
> I'm sorry if this is a very FAQ, I've been googling around and searchin'
> the list archive and I'll gladly accept RTFMs with somehow precise URLs
> (including URLs to the list archives).
>
> I'm on the drawing board (no equipment yet) for a server farm that will
> have a SteelEye linux cluster behind to provide (among other services)
> with networked file access.
>
> The setup is all-linux (likely RHEL 2.1, less likely RHL 8.0, almost
> unlikely RHEL 3.0), that is, there will not be no windows clients nor
> servers.
>
> The shared filesystems will be used by a Courier-IMAP server and an
> Apache httpd 2.0 server.
>
> I always did these kind of stuff with NFS and I know it would work, but
> recently someone told me maybe SMB would yeld better performance and
> resilience in case of a cluster node failing over to the other one...
>
> The point is, I don't know anything about this, and searching the web,
> newsgroups and mailing list archives didn't bring much light into it.
>
> I asked in the Courier-IMAP mailing list and the only answer (from
> Courier-IMAP developer) only stated that he thought samba wouldn't be
> able to correctly handle ":" charaters in filenames (which Courier-IMAP
> uses).
>
> I did a really quick check with stock samba 2.2.7 included in RedHat 7.3
> and I can create a file named "hi:bye" and I can read it thru an smb
> mount... buy if I list the directory containing it, it appears as
> "HIBYE~7C", so it's obviously doing some mangling in there.
>
> First question is, can I disable all name mangling on a share that will
> be accessed only by unix machines? or is there any mounting options that
> allows me to do this?
>
> Second (and most important) question is... will SMB provide better
> performance or more resilience in an all-linux environment? or should I
> stick with NFS?
>
> TIA.
>
> --
> Mariano Absatz
> El Baby
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> Double your drive space - delete Windows!
>
>
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