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Dewdman42
May 20, 2012Virtuoso
Help getting pureftpd working
I have recently purchased and installed Who Care's pureftpd addon. I went into the virtual user manager and created a virtual user, assigned it to one of the NAS uid's, which I guess influences what...
Dewdman42
May 21, 2012Virtuoso
I'm learning a lot from you!
I didn't even know it was possible to do that with NFS, but I will look into that, as I'd rather not mess with the default UID on OSX.
I'm not sure whether I want or need to use NFS or not. I initially thought it might be faster than AFP and SMB. Today I posted a benchmark on the performance forum that I did last night. NFS out performed AFP and SMB for most things, but badly under performed for 4k block reads and writes. I know NFS might be tunable for this. Or maybe AFP is fine.
I agree OSX's automount stuff is jacked up. I recently tried to do an automount using the /net feature, but now for the life of me I can't figure out how to get rid of it.
I didn't even know it was possible to do that with NFS, but I will look into that, as I'd rather not mess with the default UID on OSX.
I'm not sure whether I want or need to use NFS or not. I initially thought it might be faster than AFP and SMB. Today I posted a benchmark on the performance forum that I did last night. NFS out performed AFP and SMB for most things, but badly under performed for 4k block reads and writes. I know NFS might be tunable for this. Or maybe AFP is fine.
I agree OSX's automount stuff is jacked up. I recently tried to do an automount using the /net feature, but now for the life of me I can't figure out how to get rid of it.
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