nfs vs samba

[bruce]

Hi

Not a flame war.  I'm going to have a use case, where I spin up a lot of
cloud VM. The worker VM does some work, and then returns the resulting
work/files to a single VM.  I'm looking at doing a NFS/Samba server for the
storage VM. Any thoughts one way or the other.

The storage VM will be accessible from the client VMs. I'm assuming the
client VM would mount the storage VM, and do some sort of write to the
device.

The overall process would also have to employ selinux on both the client,
as well as the storage VM.

Thoughts/Comments??

thanks

[Samuel Sieb]

On 4/14/20 8:58 AM, bruce wrote:
> Not a flame war.  I'm going to have a use case, where I spin up a lot of 
> cloud VM. The worker VM does some work, and then returns the resulting 
> work/files to a single VM.  I'm looking at doing a NFS/Samba server for 
> the storage VM. Any thoughts one way or the other.
>
> The storage VM will be accessible from the client VMs. I'm assuming the 
> client VM would mount the storage VM, and do some sort of write to the 
> device.

If the clients are all Linux, then you definitely want nfs.  It's a 
native Unix filesystem which supports everything and is easy to setup. 
Samba is like a translation layer with potential mismatches on both side 
and will be a lot harder to get configured correctly.

[Tom Horsley]

On Tue, 14 Apr 2020 10:04:03 -0700
Samuel Sieb wrote:
> Samba ... will be a lot harder to get configured correctly.

I can vouch for that. Once the security freaks removed
public shares, it took me something like three years
to wait for google searches to catch up to new samba and
finally tell me how to get read/write access without
a password. I mean who wouldn't find it obvious
that the key config line is "map to guest = Bad User"?