[CentOS] NFS vs SMb vs iSCSI for remote backup mounts

Thu Jan 28 23:23:16 UTC 2010
Rudi Ahlers <rudiahlers at gmail.com>

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 1:18 AM, nate <centos at linuxpowered.net> wrote:

> Rudi Ahlers wrote:
>
> > nate, why not? Is it simply unavoidable at all costs to mount on system
> on
> > another, over a WAN? That's all I really want todo
>
> If what you have now works, stick with it.. in general network
> file systems are very latency sensitive.
>
> CIFS might work best *if* your using a WAN optimization appliance,
> I'm not sure how much support NFS gets from those vendors.
>
> iSCSI certainly is the worst, block devices are very intolerant of
> latency.
>
> AFS may be another option though quite a bit more complicated, as
> far as I know it's a layer on top of an existing file system that
> is used for things like replication
>
> http://www.openafs.org/
>
> I have no experience with it myself.
>
> nate
>
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Thanx nate, this is what I wanted to hear :)

So, is there any benefit in using NFS over SMB in this case? The CIFS mounts
can't be unmounted without a reboot, so they build-up a pool of mounts to
the same server which cause extra latency


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