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Cool. So to update your list: > Things that support SMB out of the box: Windows, Mac, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, illumos > Things that support NFSv4 out of the b
by skissane 4y ago
Cool. So to update your list:
> Things that support SMB out of the box: Windows, Mac, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, illumos
> Things that support NFSv4 out of the box: Windows, Mac, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, illumos
OpenBSD is the only real difference here. (And if "install something from ports" counts as "out of the box", there is no difference.)
There is still somewhat of a difference in ease-of-use though. For NFS, Windows users have to enable an OS feature which is not enabled by default. (I suppose one could automate that in the installer, run a PowerShell script for example.) Not sure how true that is for other platforms.
It still raises the question of why one might prefer NFSv4 vs SMB.