On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 1:18 AM, nate centos@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
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