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On 04/20/2011 06:21 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: |
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> Okay, I'm combining the portage distfiles dir into a storage server. |
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> Problem: the storage server is Windows 2003. |
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> Question: should I mount the distfile dir using SMB/CIFS or NFS? Is |
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> there any performance and/or complexity issues? |
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> Thanks in advance. |
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> Rgds, |
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I have noticed better performance in straight copies from NFS on my |
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Windows SBS 2003, but I have had some trouble getting UIDs to map |
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correctly on the linux end. Admittedly, though, I haven't gone to a |
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great deal of effort to map every Windows user to a UID. I haven't |
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tested rsync, but cp did go much more quickly on the files I was looking |
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at (few, >2GB files). |
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-Andy |
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