iSCSI vs. SMB with ZFS.

[Reko Turja]

-----Original Message----- 
From: Zaphod Beeblebrox 
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 6:57 PM 
To: FreeBSD Hackers 
Subject: iSCSI vs. SMB with ZFS. 

> So... I have two machines.  My Fileserver is a core-2-duo machine with
> FreeBSD-9.1-ish ZFS, istgt and samba 3.6.  My workstation is windows 7
> on an i7.  Both have GigE and are connected directly via a managed
> switch with jumbo packets (specifically 9016) enabled.  Both are using
> tagged vlan packets to the switch (if that matters at all).

My experience on samba has been that it’s slow whatever one does to tweak it (probably just too linux-centric code to start with or whatever...) Just as another datapoint – do you have tried NFS yet? Win7 has NFS available as OS component, although not installed by default?

-Reko