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SMB Direct – SMB3 over RDMA – The Linux Kernel Documentation docs.kernel.org

geerlingguy3 hours ago

Interesting, the main things I've read for SMB Direct are from Microsoft, for their Windows Server implementation.

But with Apple's recent introduction of RDMA over Thunderbolt, that got my hopes up I could use it for storage, not only moving LLMs, but also for video file storage, where editing from one Mac to another (or over Ethernet, if that's supported) could be much faster, with lower latency.

ohthehugemanate2 hours ago

What is the performance impact of soft RDMA over SMB this way, vs the traditional SMB on the IP stack?

bjackman3 hours ago

What, um... Are... Are people using samba to sync model weights between cluster nodes...?

ycombinatrix2 hours ago

Dunno but I have used samba to load model weights from my NAS

hejira19 minutes ago

I was sure SMB3 was Super Mario Bros 3.

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