Smb for Linux only environment suitable?

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Is it fine to use smb in a linux only environment for file sharing(no clustering and so on) ? I know that nfs is a bit faster then smb.

But are there any other relevant disadvantages? (Security, functionality,...)

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With the latest SMB version (ver3 and up) this protocol has encryption support. SMB is more secure then nfs because is uses packet signing (optional).

SMB1 has security issue (google "wannacry ransomware") , there are several SMB projects (GPL and non-GPL) that support SMB2 and SMB3.