OwnCloud - NFS or CIFS

[Davewolfs]

Considering OwnCloud for my cloud storage. If I use CIFS or NFS as my backing store (without their external storage plugin) is there really any difference? Basically wondering if there is anything to look out for if using either of these mount types instead of my Linux file system.

Also, more of an aside but have any of you chosen Seafile instead of OwnCloud?

 

[T_Minus]

I was just going to post about this question, as well as ask about Seafile and Pydio.

Anyone care to share? My storage is ZFS based shared over NFS. If that matters.

OR, what about running Owncloud / SeaFile / Pydio on OmniOS -- anyone doing this? 1 less VM.

 

[groove]

I run OwnCloud as a zone (container) in Solaris 11.3. The OwnCloud zone then connects to the global zone over NFS. Works great for me (albiet it's for home use with 3-4 users).

 

[T_Minus]

napp-it // webbased ZFS NAS/SAN appliance for OmniOS, OpenIndiana, Solaris and Linux : Extensions

--Looks like it may be worth a try.

 

[cperalt1]

Why bother doing it via NFS to the global zone. Wouldn't you get higher performance by LOFS mounting into the zone or if it is the only zone using the dataset you could also delegate the dataset to the zone as well.

 

[groove]

I go over NFS since I like my Owncloud data to be available in a 'native' filesystem - I tried delegating the dataset to the zone but then had issues accessing the dataset from the global zone. I did not try LOFS - at that time I just switched over to using NFS and configured autofs to mount the folder in owncloud. It was easy enough to do and has been working quite well.

 

[kroem]

I use Nextcloud, data stored on a NFS shared ZFS storage. Perfoance is meh, but I think that's the application.