NFS share for DVD mount instead of cifs

[dirkomatic]

For the mounting of the DVD share for ISOs (which I love by the way!), is it possible to change from a cifs share to an NFS share, such as:

Code:

mkdir /mnt/D:\\My\ DVD\ Collection
mount -t nfs XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:/dvds /mnt/D:\\My\ DVD\ Collection -o username=guest,ro

I am going to try it when I get home, but I thought I'd ask if anyone had attempted this yet.

[mvallevand]

That's not the right syntax, it will be something like

mount -t nfs -o nolock,tcp,rsize=4096,wsize=4096 XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:/dvds /mnt/D:\\My\ DVD\ Collection

and you might want to play with the -o settings for your needs.

Martin

[dirkomatic]

I will definitely look into it and let you know how it all works out.

Thanks for the great work and the help!

[dirkomatic]

It worked. Thanks!

[dirkomatic]

In case anyone else is interested in this, I experienced some stuttering after FFwding through an ISO with the command listed above. I removed the sizes and all worked as it should; i.e.

Code:

mount -t nfs -o nolock,tcp XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:/dvds /mnt/D:\\My\ DVD\ Collection

[Blue Racer]

Is there any advantage to using a NFS share instead of a CIFS?

[dirkomatic]

Is there any advantage to using a NFS share instead of a CIFS?

I know cifs is basically what they now call smb, and according to the NMT documentation, nfs is faster than smb. I'm not sure of the speed of cifs, but I have a feeling that it is closer to the speed of smb.

If I have the opportunity, I'll experiment and see if mounting as cifs causes me any stuttering.

[mvallevand]

Blue Racer, because the PCH and GBPVR communicate normally through HTTP the distinction between NFS and CIFS isn't as important as it might be for HD formats. I have tested played up 40Mbs mkv files from GBPVR.

NFS shares are faster than the Windows shares but since these are only used for DVD's the bit rate requirement is much lower so I wouldn't worry about it unless you have problems playing DVDs my guess this would really only start to show up in the 4x and 8x FF not being as fast as possible on NFS.

Martin

[dirkomatic]

All my movies are isos, so I need to use the share...

It was odd, the stuttering wasn't apparent until I resumed normal speed after FF. I didn't really try cifs after successfully setting up the nfs, so you are probably right. it's most likely not relevant.