SMB and NFS

Hi,
I'm traying to compare NFSv3, NFSv4 and SMB filesystem and can't find
how those filesystems will behave in situation when
a) Copying many small (few KB) files
b) Copying few big (over 50MB) files
same time by about 10 clients. Will serwer create some buffer or
fragments of files are read for every client? NFSv4 will pack many
lookup/open/read requests in COMPOUND procedure, NFSv3 will perform
every request in separate call but how it be handle by SMB ?
Thanks for answers,
Peter
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Yup both NFSvX and SMB should work. In past i had used both on 5GB size
files though i find NFS bit faster

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Vivek Gite napisał(a):
> Yup both NFSvX and SMB should work. In past i had used both on 5GB size
> files though i find NFS bit faster
>

I know they will work but I'm interested how requests and answers will
be handle by SMB server. This protocol is not well documented.

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