Re: smbfs vs nfs

richard@specialix.co.uk
4 Dec 1996 10:47:03 -0000


In article <199612020509.XAA22411@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> you wrote:

: has anyone tried using smbfs in place of nfs and done a performance
: comparison? any thoughts on this being a usable possibility?

I get about a 5% performance hit using smbfs rather than nfs talking to
a big SCO box running samba, but even if smbfs was faster I would still
use NFS as it exports permissions etc in a more usable way.

- Richard

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Richard Hodson, Software engineer                  | richard@specialix.co.uk