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1. Cifs Vs Nfs Performance Windows 7 Vs Windows 10

I'm looking for thoughts on the age-old CIFS vs NFS debate. From my somewhat limited experience NFS is much easier to set up and just tends to work. Some of my more optimistic Windows friends think that sharing home directories between Linux and Windows would be useful. Therefore, they think I should implement CIFS home directories. From what I've found this is a fairly complicated process and the difference in security features often causes unpredictable results. I guess a lot of this is mitigated when the SMB server is on Linux. However, that won't be the case here.

The share will either come from a Windows server or a 3rd party storage manager. FYI, I would want to automount home directories.I don't want to be an uninformed zealot so I'm looking for any arguments for adopting CIFS. If your file servers are Windows-based and your clients are mixed, CIFS will tend to provide better performance for your Windows clients than NFS will (Microsoft does some behind-the-scenes tasks that Samba doesn't - IIRC, Intel published a performance study on the performance difference between Windows clients with Windows share-server and Windows clients with Samba share-server).If your clients are primarily Linux, your more-portable and performant bet is likely to be NFSv4 - either on Linux or Windows 2012+. Note that, to get the more-seamless, cross-platform attribute-propagation, your RHEL clients will need to be running EL7 as the EL6 NFSv4 and IDMAP services are a touch 'broken'.

If using a Windows 2012 NFSv4 server, you'll want everything to be speaking NFS 4.1 (there's various Google-able resources explaining the particulars of 'why'). You can actually use 3rd party products on Windows to mount NFS shares. On a quick check I see OpenText (who also make the Exceed X Windows emulator formerly known as Hummingbird Exceed) have several NFS products for Windows.

There are probably others and may also be FOSS if you search.my experience has been there are far more Windows workstations than Linux so making them install a product on every workstation would likely meet with resistance. The Samba software package in RHEL 7 includes SMB v1., v2. and v3. functionality.

It’s disturbing how much of this is wrong. CIFS is not exclusive to windows and NFS is not exclusive to linux/unix. In fact you can use either on either file system. Also note that Microsoft did not invent SAMBA/SMB. It was actually created by a guy at IBM back in 1983. CIFS is not the “public” version. CIFS is a bastardized version of SAMBA to add on some additional capabilities required by the MS OS’s and then called it the Microsoft SMB protocol which is probably why MS people think they invented it.

Cifs Vs Nfs Performance Windows 7 Vs Windows 10

But that is not the case.NFS – Network File SystemCIFS – Common Internet File SystemThe one you got right is that CIFS is much more chatty than NFS because of those additional MS capabilities.@Joeseph Spenner – Yes the NFS works well with breaks, as @Alex mentioned, you need to understand the configuration options that allow for that better performance based on your needs and requirements.

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