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Why Linux for file servers?

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Why Linux for file servers?

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Linux gives you a wider choice of file systems and volume managers. Several file systems are available for Linux, including EXT3, the standard choice, and Red Hat Global File System (GFS), which allows a cluster of Linux servers to share data in a common pool of storage. Linux file systems include easy-to-use features that let you set up multiple servers accessing a single file system and replicate a file system to two physically distant servers, while automatically keeping them in sync. While this is possible on Windows or Solaris, it is considerably more expensive than the comparable Linux solutions. For networks that will include Windows machines, Samba running on Linux is a popular file-serving solution. Samba is an open source suite of programs that lets Windows, Linux/UNIX, and Mac systems access file systems through the Windows Server Message Block (SMB) and Common Internet Filesystem (CIFS) protocols. A Samba Linux server can be configured as a file/print server on a Windows ne

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