dikkiedirk Posted October 18, 2013 Share Posted October 18, 2013 Can you guys please help me to set up NFS the right way for best performance. I need it for streaming to my Popcorn Hour mediaplayer. I run unraid 5.0 final on this server. Is NFS stable? Quote Link to comment
newsboy Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 I have found NFS to be unstable. I am running unraid within ESXi. I was originally mounting from fstab, but ended up with a lot of "stale NFS" errors. Form another post on this forum I started using autofs. It seems to have marginally improved, but I still end up with errors telling me a directory doesn't exist, which I believe to autofs for "stale NFS" errors. Just some background, I'm running ESXi 5.5, with NFS user shares, X9SCM, and an IBM M1015 card. Quote Link to comment
snowboardjoe Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 I'm serving up my shares via NFS and mounting them on my busier Mac systems as well as some Ubuntu VM's. The performance is much better than using SMB. I'm using the NFS automounter on my iMac (the Ubuntu ones are mounting it permanently). I still use SMB for browsing from Macs in general, but when I'm doing some major IO or ripping a bunch of stuff, I use NFS--very stable. What sort of setup are you looking for? Just how to setup the NFS serving side on unRAID? It's very easy. Quote Link to comment
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