[Samba] What great things can a non-windows user do with Samba

[Linda Walsh]

Robert Heller wrote:
> At Thu, 11 Jul 2013 11:52:49 -0400 Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I ask this question about once a decade.
>>
>> I have about 7 computers, all Linux or BSD. Are there any cool things I
>> can do with Samba, even though I have no Windows computers?
>>     
I haven't done timings against nfs for a while, but when I did, samba 
was notably
faster than NFS... but that was back on 100Mb ether and alot has changed 
now.

My current samba tops out at about 25% of a 20Gbit ether -- it becomes
cpu bound due to the windows-design of 1 TCP connection serving all your
file system requests.