Explore the differences between NFS and SMB for local file sharing, including speed, compatibility, and setup complexity.

Q: How do I NFS mount a filesystem on other Linux machines? A: NFS, or Network File System, is a technology that was introduced into the Unix world by Sun Microsystems. It allows a computer to mount a ...

I use SMB over NFS for home lab file sharing, thanks to cross-platform support, improved performance with SMB3, and the ...

If you have two or more machines, you may wish to share disk space or devices, such as a CD drive, between machines. For this there is network filesystem (NFS), the easiest way of sharing files and ...

I have exported the filesystem from the OS X machine...<BR><BR>This is what I get on my laptop (Linux) when I attempt to mount the filesystem:<BR><BR>Apr 24 22:40:44 coyote kernel: portmap: server ...

I have this one little issue with my home 3-node PVE cluster. One node is the fileserver with a large zfs pool exported via NFS to the other 2 nodes. This node also happens to be the one that boots ...

The authors develop a holistic framework for adaptively scheduling asynchronous requests in distributed file systems. The system is holistic in that it manages all resources, including network ...

In July, Microsoft announced that shared disks in Azure Disk Storage had reached general availability. Following on from that, a few days later, the tech giant revealed NFS 3.0 support for Blob ...

In this second article of a two-part series, Posey finishes up by showing you how to set up the sync task so you can synchronize your data across the two file systems. In the previous article, I ...

Dave Flynn, CEO of Hammerspace gave a talk at the 2023 IEEE Massive Storage Systems and Technology (MSST) conference at Santa Clara University where he discussed the benefits of creating NSF based ...