[posted to rush.general]
On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 15:22 -0700, mark edwards wrote:
[posted to rush.general]
hey folks,
what is the best way to automount an nfs file server from a linux
workstation? The server is running OSX.3 and the workstation is SUSE
9.3.
I would do it by adding an entry into /etc/fstab and have an option for
auto
Something like:
server:/Volumes/share /media/share nfs (options) 0 0
There are lots of options that you can tweak for your needs.
Make sure that /mnt/share is there, if not make it. Then run mount -a
Also does anyone know the speed comparisons with smb and nfs with
the same setup?
In my experience OSX is slightly slower in NFS on 10.3. The first hit
was always slower till it cached anyway. AFP was the fastest. SMB
second,\ although that does spawn a child process for ever connection.
AFP doesn't thread across the Xserves procs.
I think it depends how many users are hitting the server. Less than 30
for 3D on SMB/NFS and you should be ok.