Good morning, folks. I've been driving myself to distraction trying to test out SMB2 performance under Linux. I see that the Samba on RHEL 5 is relatively old, I'm dealing with an upstream NetApp fileserver that is configured for SMB2, so I've got clients to test.
The Samba on RHEL 5 is relatively old, 3.0.33, with samba3x-3.5.4 alternatively available, and cifs-utils-* available from RPMforge. I've done some testing with all of these nad not seen a significant performance difference simply reading or writing up to 10,000 files 1 MB files in one directory, nor in other test setups, between when the NetApp has SMB2 enabled or disabled. It certainly has *equivalent* functionality with SMB2 enabled or disabled on the server side, but I'm not seeing any difference on the side of the clients. I also see that RHEL 6 has cifs-utils-4.4, and samba-3.5.4, and a samba4 package I've not touched. I've done basic tests, but not seen noticeable differences there, but my testing there is *very* limited: I don't have test servers close enough to the NetApp to really really on performance tests not to be blocked by busy VPN's between them. Does RHEL 5 or RHEL 6, or the current versions of cifs-utils available for either, actually support SMB2? I don't see a "mount.smb2" binary in the packages, though I see it mentioned in the docs, and I'd like to really hammer the SMB2 server for performance comparisons. But it's meaningless if if it's not actually mounting as SMB2. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
