Re: A new NFSv4 server...

[Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>]

Peter =C5strand wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote:
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>>> Ditto.  I think it'd be great to have a variety of client and serve=
r
>>> implementations available over the net, but I've had no luck talkin=
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>>> anybody else into it.
>> I think blanket public access wouldn't be as effective as passworded=
 access to
>> a cluster, much like how people get accounts on kernel.org (which is=
 an
>> excellent model for shared-interest services).
>>
>> On the test cluster, I would want to be able to really stress my sof=
tware,
>> which to any normal firewall or casual observer would look like a Do=
S attempt.
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> I'm not afraid of stress-tests that looks like DoS attempts. What wor=
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> me is that a writable export will be used for sharing warez or someth=
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> like that.=20

I would think that LAN testing would have more value than WAN testing=20
anyway.  So just close off the firewall, except for ssh bastion host or=
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similar.

	Jeff