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I want to create some utility that read/write the files with permission (ACL) from/to Isilon server. This utility will access the server either on LAN or VPN. Here my main concern is to achieve performance too for file/folder enumeration and copy files data with attributes/acl/timestamp too.

As I know, you can access the file storage using SMB if server is on Windows server else NFS if server is on unix/linux.

so I want some basic information that in what scenarios OneFS Api's are better than accessing directly over NFS/SMB.

Romil Kumar Jain
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I'm an Isilon admin at a big company. TL;DR Its just another way to access your files

Most of my clients-systems access their files using SMB, and a smaller number use NFSv3. Generally NFS is best suited to Unix clients, and SMB is best with Windows, but you can mount SMB with Linux and you can run an NFS client on Windows. Probably the biggest advantage with NFS/SMB is they are commonly used protocols that most IT admins are familiar with.

API access would be the best approach if you are already writing custom software, or implementing a web framework that was geared toward REST API integration. If implementing using REST API, then Isilon's API access might be the easiest choice.

Scotronix
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