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