[OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS slow reads but fast writes

[Dan Swartzendruber]

Gary wrote:
> I can't speak to this issue in regards to OpenIndiana but CIFS/samba
> has historically been much slower than NFS, FTP, and even netatalk,
> etc. due to its large metadata overhead. One can observe this in the
> wild with a few well time tcpdumps. One thing that might be worth
> investigating in this situation, however, is a comparison of smbclient
> transfers to/from another Unix host vs. transfers to/from a Win7 host.
>   
Yeah, I actually tested that.  smb on a centos5.5 box.  Almost identical 
results, which is why I am suspecting what you are.  I think for now, 
I'm just going to stick to using iSCSI....