Thanks to Jeremy Allison
for this link.
“Samba 2.0 for the Irix platform pushes Silicon Graphics Inc.’s
Origin servers out of the pixel-pushing realm of three-dimensional
animation and into the byte-busting world of heavy-duty file
servers.”
“Although Samba is free, SGI charges $1,500 for a maintenance
contract that ensures enterprise-level support for any SGI-Samba
installation. This is a low price when compared with NetWare and
NT, and Samba doesn’t skimp on features, offering such advanced
capabilities as opportunistic locking that are available to other
Unix processes.”
“PC Week Labs tested the new Samba 2.0, an open-source, freeware
application that’s basically a CIFS (Common Internet File System)
gateway to foreign file systems, on a four-processor Origin 200.
The Origin/Samba combo kicked up astounding performance numbers,
clocking 165M-bps throughput using 115 Windows clients and the
Ziff-Davis Benchmark Operation’s NetBench 5.01 benchmark suite (see
chart).”