We are using the Samba client APIs successfully to make the iSeries a
Samba client to send/receive files. These work well and seem pretty
fast.
The JCIFS Java APIs work very well also and we have wrappered these
successfully.
If Rob is saying that the Netserver capability on the iSeries is SLOW
for file serving, I have to wholeheartedly agree with him.
Back in 1997 when Netserver first came out we tried to use it with a
customer as a file server and Windows Explorer would constantly crash as
well as MS Word when saving documents.
Even today the Windows file sharing from the iSeries seems quite slow in
my experience.
Now if you're using the JT400 IFS APIs for reading/writing IFS files
from the iSeries, this is quite fast and reliable.
For what it's worth :-)
Regards,
Richard Schoen
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message: 4
date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:06:28 -0600
from: Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: File, web and other serving Was: Would it be a reasonable
to ask IBM's programmers to, write a %sortsfl(sfl:
column)
I believe Dan's comment was directed toward Java performance, not IFS
file server performance. The latter can be extremely disappointing. I
believe Richard has wrapped up some samba protocol that really flies.
But don't quote me until he says so here!!
Almost done for the day!
Vern
rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
<snip>
should run significantly faster
</snip>
There are people that have done some of these things and I'll take
real
world experience over "should"'s.
We tried using the i as a simple file server but the OS, (no if, and's
or
buts) couldn't cut it. -snip-
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