Linux Performance (NFS and SMB)
Any shared folder on the NAS can be set up for NFS sharing. It is just a small matter of setting up the NFS privileges for the shared folder. One needs to remember to check the NFS sharing service option in the Win/Mac/NFS Control Panel settings.
The NFS shares were quite easy to set up and access from other Linux based machines / media streamers. However, accessing them from Windows was not quite straightforward as it was with the LaCie 5big Storage Server.
For the benchmark in this section, we booted our testbed into Ubuntu and replicated our robocopy command with rsync. In the first run, we set up a SMB share and write and read the same contents used in robocopy using rsync. The second set of tests were run after setting up a NFS share and removing the Windows File Sharing option to remove the SMB shares.
SMB performance on Ubuntu 11.04 is pretty bad compared to what was obtained with Windows 7. NFS - Linux performance is also not as good as SMB - Windows performance.
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