[mythtv-users] Re: Samba 3 better than NFS 3 for recording over Ethernet

Mike Frisch mfrisch at isurfer.ca
Wed Dec 28 23:43:44 EST 2005


On 28-Dec-05, at 10:16 PM, Greg Oliver wrote:

> What mount option are you passing to the nfs share..  SMB versus  
> nfs and
> smb being faster is impossible IMO.
>

Agreed.

At least the following NFS mount options should be used if not already:

mount -o rsize=32768,wsize=32768,nfsvers=3,tcp server:/nfs/export / 
local/mountpoint

The "tcp" option may not be necessary but I haven't taken the time to  
benchmark between TCP and UDP.

Mike.




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