From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Robinson Subject: Re: NAS Remote Side of a Mirror Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:53:35 +0100 Message-ID: <4ACDD2BF.7020405@anonymous.org.uk> References: <906812.26904.qm@web38804.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <906812.26904.qm@web38804.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: adfas asd Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 08/10/2009 12:39, adfas asd wrote: > --- On Wed, 10/7/09, Chris Green wrote: >> Why do you think samba would be a bad >> choice? I did a quick search for qnap benchmarks, and the >> numbers didn't look >> like anything special compared to my "generic pc + linux + >> software raid + samba + gbE" setup. > > Samba was great, and I used it through the 20th century, but compared with FUSE it sucks in so many ways, as does NFS Hang on - you still need Samba to export a Linux filesystem to Windows clients, don't you? And that's what a NAS has to do. Cheers, John.