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SMB vs NFS: browsing performance
Hi, I have a NAS with a lot of small files, which I need to search through often. I use a file manager called FAR Manager, but that doesn't really matter. I've enabled NFS client in my windows wo...
NFS is a native Linux file system and SMB is not, I'm not surprised that NFS is faster, but am a bit that it's that much faster. The fact the SMB is not case sensitive where NFS is may be making a big difference when it comes to a search.
NFS generally is faster when you are reading/writing lots of small files, so I'm not surprised that it is also faster for browsing. https://ferhatakgun.com/network-share-performance-differences-between-nfs-smb/ is one of several google reports on this.
Ok, in that case, how can I make NFS show UTF filenames correctly? SMB shows them fine.
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