I have EMC Celerra-class file servers in production. They mainly provide SMB services via a proprietary CIFS daemon (or maybe its some embedded version of Windows - I dont know much about EMCs core ...

Many companies are using open source Linux servers for DNS/DHCP servers and Web servers, but it is also possible to use Linux or UNIX as a file server. The Network File System has been around for many ...

I have this one little issue with my home 3-node PVE cluster. One node is the fileserver with a large zfs pool exported via NFS to the other 2 nodes. This node also happens to be the one that boots ...

SMB (Server Message Block) is a network protocol that is used to share access to files, printers and serial ports between a Linux or Unix computer and a Windows computer. NFS (Network File System) is ...

If thinking of NFS v4 puts a bad taste in your mouth, you are not alone. Or wrong. NFS v4.0 and v4.1 have had some valid, well-documented growing pains that include limited bandwidth and scalability.

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I hadn’t seen a stale NFS file handle for more than a decade, so this mount error surprised me. fermion:/ # mount boson:/cdrom/studio_9_solsparc /studio_9_solsparc ...

NFS servers are stupid, NFS clients are smart. Most caching of NFS results happens on the NFS client. NFS requests contain an operation code and arguments. The server processes the request and returns ...