On 02/28/2014 01:02 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 5:13 PM, Mark Haney <mha...@practichem.com> wrote:
On 02/28/14 12:07, Dan Mossor wrote:
What do y'all consider the most efficient network file system? NFS?
SMB? SFTP?

Maybe you should outline your requirements a bit more. For example
SFTP is not a filesystem, so are you only concerned about end-to-end
transfer rates?

poc

I am building an environment where I am setting up a local mirror for Fedora, CentOS, rpmfusion, and Ubuntu. I am using virtual machines to pull down the data and storing it on a local NAS device. Once a week, I am building a DVD of updates to transfer them to a disconnected system.

I am trying to determine the best access protocol for the VMs to reach the NAS. The NAS is not a true NAS device, it is an HP Proliant server with 8TB of storage running CentOS 6.5, so it can support any transfer method, including iSCSI. It is already running Samba to support our local Windows machines, and NFS for my work with Fedora and CentOS.

When the DVD is built, I pull the updates across the local network to my machine and build the DVD there. These <4GiB transfers sometimes take close to 3 to 4 hours using NFS, and it is a Gigabit network. rsync appeared to be a bit faster, but my goal is to find the most efficient transfer method to move lots of little -and some big - files across a local network.

I'm wondering about iSCSI - I haven't played with it much, maybe I'll test it out for this week's updates.

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Dan Mossor
Systems Engineer at Large
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San Antonio, Texas, USA
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