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Is there a high-performance local area "file sharing" protocol?

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Mar 15, 20265853 views
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It seems to me that most network "file sharing" protocols are one or more of old, slow, and insecure. The most used protocols seem to be SMB, NFS, and WebDAV. I'm sitting here, looking at iTunes trying to scan a media library over SMB, and it's going at about 2 MB per second. It's hooked up through…

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The fastest file sharing protocol in the world isn't going to be able to make up for the fact that some apps aren't written with remote filesystems in mind, so they dispatch lots of small reads or writes, and wait for one operation to complete befor…

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