[wazoox]

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.

[inthewind]

Thanks for the reply. How sucky is something like an SSH mount with fuse, or is that not comparable?

[wazoox]

Sorry for the late reply; from my experience anything FUSE-based sucks too much to qualify as even barely usable.