Pogoplug Series 4: NFS vs Samba vs AFP

[winestock]

I am using Linux-Kirkwood 3.6.4-1. I am setting up my Pogoplug as a file server. Which is more effecient, in terms of memory use, NFS v3 or Samba or Telatalk? Which provides quicker file access?

[moonman]

If you don't have any windows clients NFS should be the best as it has less CPU overhead and is native to linux, but on the mac it can be a pain to setup. Samba is very easy to setup following the guide (which has all the optimizations you need for speed already included in the sample config). AFP... I've only used it with my mac over wireless to do timemachine backups so i can't really comment on speed. Setup involves editing several configs so it's somewhat more difficult/time consuming to do. That was my experience at least. With samba I get ~30MB/s read ~25MB/s write with BFQ scheduler enabled and most my drives are USB (so 30MB/s is max). In theory NFS should be faster with your slower ppv4.