FluidFS MAC OS X Best Practices Guide

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In a modern IT environment, centralized storage devices are used to provide data storage space to many different operating systems, and the applications that run on them. Storage administrators are faced with the constant challenge of interoperability and optimization, as each operating system and application can have its own set of unique requirements. End users running the Mac OS X operating system also put a very high priority on ease of use and an enjoyable user experience.

This document describes in detail how to properly integrate FluidFS NAS and Mac OS X clients that wish to access it. Covered topics include:

• Protocol support, and how to choose,
• SMB and NFS Best Practices,
• Best practices for OS X metadata, authentication, file access (using Finder), permissions, viewing snapshots, firewall settings, and other protocol specific details.