Rudi Ahlers wrote: > let's keep the question simple. WHICH filesystem would be best for > this type of operation? SMB, NFS, or iSCSI? ISCSI is not a file system, its purely a block device. works best over fast low latency dedicated links. I think NFS would be better for unix to unix than SMB. SMB/CIFS is better for MS Windows, but neither works very well over high latency connections.