My experience with Mac connecting to Linux file servers, is that OS X NFS client performance is fine (110 MB/s over Giga ethernet), and SMB performance sucks badly (70 MB/s on GigE, comparable to the poor old cranky windows XP). AFP performance with netatalk is comparable to NFS, but much more resource intensive on the server. Therefore I always use NFS shares between Linux and Macs.
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My experience with Mac connecting to Linux file servers, is that OS X NFS client performance is fine (110 MB/s over Giga ethernet), and SMB performance sucks badly (70 MB/s on GigE, comparable to the poor old cranky windows XP). AFP performance with netatalk is comparable to NFS, but much more resource intensive on the server. Therefore I always use NFS shares between Linux and Macs.
Thanks for the reply. How sucky is something like an SSH mount with fuse, or is that not comparable?
Sorry for the late reply; from my experience anything FUSE-based sucks too much to qualify as even barely usable.