Best Way To Keep A Drive Always Mounted

[Markus Hitter]

Am 28.10.2007 um 20:56 schrieb Bill Janssen:

>>> Does anyone recommend NFS?
>>
>> NFS is lightweight, fast and works fine at least up until Tiger
>> (can't tell about Leopard). It's weak spot is it's connection-less
>> protocol and thereof resulting lack of user authentication. You
>> should put a reliable firewall between your NFS shares and the  
>> public.
>
> I get terrible client-side performance (throughput) from my Mac Pro
> over a gigabit switched network to our NFS file servers.  Using NIS
> automount of the NFS shares.  I've always just figured the OS X NFS
> drivers weren't up to snuff (similar Linux machines get great
> throughput over the same network to the same file servers), but maybe
> I have something misconfigured?

I don't know. Here I use plain mounts without NIS. Just mounting in  
the Finder (cmd-k) and I get performance similar to what I'd get with  
FTP.


Markus

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