Subject: Re: hardware advise ( Samba file server )
To: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
From: Gilles Gravier <Gilles@Gravier.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 05/02/2006 16:08:30
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SAMBA is probably the simplest to put in place.

But I have no idea of what performance impact each has. Ideas?

Gilles.

Patrick Welche wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 06:49:56AM +0200, Gilles Gravier wrote:
>   
>> If you are going to serve files, I would definitely mirror disks given 
>> the low cost of disks these days. Save on CPU/RAM get 2 disks. :)
>>
>> If you are only doing SAMBA, you don't need more than 512MB of RAM. 2GB 
>> is way overkill. If your SAMBA file server is not running X11, you can 
>> even get away safely with only 256 MB of RAM (NetBSD is a very slim OS).
>>
>> Since you are doing SAMBA, your bottleneck will not be CPU but rather 
>> the Windows machines you are serving on the other side. You will most 
>> likely not get more than 200kbps on the Windows machines... so you can 
>> easily get away with even less than a 2GHz CPU. Get the cheapest CPU you 
>> can find. (I have a preference for AMD).
>>     
>
> If the aim is to serve files from a NetBSD server to M$ Windows clients,
> is option 1) of
>
> 1) samba              "ordinary" cifs client
> 2) apache/webdav      webfolder
> 3) iscsi-target       iscsi-initiator
> 4) others?
>
> definitely the best? (I would guess so, but I don't know 3) at all for
> instance)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Patrick
>   

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