Hey Spike,
We need to use NFS v4 with Kerberos for security reasons.
This reminds me why we've kept running our file servers on Linux VMs - everything just
worked with SSD and at a surprising scale. Now (if we go ahead) we've got a lot of
work to do affecting all Linux systems, all to just add a NAS.
In this research I've found that other people share my thoughts about NAS vendors
supporting Linux better. Life really would be easier for many of us if a NAS vendor just
implemented the SSSD ID mapping algorithm. It's open source, there's nothing to
stop them using it along with all the other FOSS they use!
FYI The only reason we're considering all this is an internal customer desperately
wants to have a single "share" for windows and Linux larger than the 64TiB limit
on LUNs our hypervisor dictates. We investigated other hacks to work around this but all
would have increased data risk significantly. (I didn't mention this before as I
wanted this conversation to stay on this topic and not stray to alternate solutions)
Thanks,
Ed