Re: Where can download the source code of smbfs?
Re: Where can download the source code of smbfs?
- Subject: Re: Where can download the source code of smbfs?
- From: Richard Hamilton <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 10:17:57 -0400
https://www.murage.ca/os-x-yosemite-server-4-03-smb3/ says that
https://blogs.creativecow.net/blog/13562/10gb-and-smb3-really-rocks claims that multichannel support is there in Yosemite and beyond, but I see nothing in either article describing how to tell if it's being used, or pointing to any official documentation. So I'm skeptical.
Others say that the big slowdown for SMB on Macs is signing - turn that off (if acceptable from a security standpoint) and performance should be close to wire speeds.
Since I personally don't have any Windows up all the time, I prefer NFS, although the level of deviousness needed to do Time Machine backups over that is excessive, IMO (have to set up early mount on the Mac of an NFS share containing a writable .dmg, and then mount that too, as I recall; I haven't tried it myself). NFS is much closer to Unix semantics (at least in the sense that credentials apply to each file access rather than to the mount as a whole), is generally reliable, and IMO performs well; I've NFS mounted all my iTunes content from a Solaris system for years, with no trouble. However, the "best" NFS would be NFSv4 (in terms of metadata support insofar as the server's underlying filesystem provided it, and credential mapping), but Apple still calls their implementation of that experimental.