Most Efficient Network File sharing protocol?

[Mark Haney]

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On 02/28/14 12:07, Dan Mossor wrote:
> What do y'all consider the most efficient network file system? NFS?
> SMB? SFTP?
> 
> I've been doing a lot of file transfers across the network, and
> have been, well, less than impressed with the performance of NFS.
> 
> I haven't set up a samba server yet (and I wasn't sure the SMB
> protocol itself would support hard links, even if the underlying
> file system did).
> 
> SFTP seems like it would put too much of a load on the CPU with
> the encryption, and in fact, I almost cooked an RPi by transferring
> stuff through SFTP and SSHFS.
> 
> What am I forgetting about?
> 
SCP?  Rsync?  I use those a lot.  Samba seems to work pretty well for
me when I need it, which is fairly often.  But I much prefer to SCP it
or rsync if possible.


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Mark Haney
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