To a long-time SMB developer the NFSv4 RFC looks remarkably familiar. In an effort to provide interoperable locking infrastructure, I have taken a closer look at what NFSv4 provides. This talk will present my current understanding of where NFSv4 and SMB provide similarities and where a common infrastructure could benefit both protocols.
Overview of NFS as seen from the SMB world
Commonalities and differences between NFS and SMB
Steps toward getting an interoperable server right
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The Linux in-kernel NFS server continues its history of innovation, leveraging the rich storage and network ecosystems available in the Linux kernel.
This talk is going to give an overview of recent changes in the Samba fileserver and an outlook on the development roadmap.
NFS 4.2 introduces significant advancements tailored for high-performance workloads, GPU computing, and distributed storage environments, elevating the capabilities of standards-based modern data c
In today’s AI driven workloads read performance matters a lot. There are three main ways we can make sure that read performance is good
Samba 4.20 will ship with rpcd_witness, which provides a service for MS-SWN within a ctdb cluster.
The performance requirements needed to power GPU-based computing use cases for AI/DL and other high-performance workflows are challenged by the performance limitations of legacy file and object sto
For over nine years, Microsoft Azure has provided completely managed file shares in the cloud.
Azure Files provides SMB3, NFS4.1 and REST based access to file shares.
The Ceph storage ecosystem currently covers the full range of File, Object and Block access with Ceph-specific protocols.
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