* NFS/Samba alternatives?
@ 2004-06-08 8:12 urgrue
2004-06-08 19:19 ` Matt Howard
2004-06-09 7:09 ` Luca Ferrari
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From: urgrue @ 2004-06-08 8:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Are there any decent alternatives to NFS and Samba when it comes to
remote mounts? Both are quite awful at dealing with mounts over
unreliable or slow lines. Last I checked Coda seemed quite incomplete
and complicated. Any other suggestions?
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* Re: NFS/Samba alternatives?
2004-06-08 8:12 NFS/Samba alternatives? urgrue
@ 2004-06-08 19:19 ` Matt Howard
2004-06-09 7:09 ` Luca Ferrari
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From: Matt Howard @ 2004-06-08 19:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-admin
urgrue wrote:
> Are there any decent alternatives to NFS and Samba when it comes to
> remote mounts? Both are quite awful at dealing with mounts over
> unreliable or slow lines. Last I checked Coda seemed quite incomplete
> and complicated. Any other suggestions?
Actually, I'd recommend NFS for its use of UDP for communications. It's
hard to predict what behavior you want when the connection has
problems. Have you looked through the nfs mount options in the mount
man page? The 'soft', and 'timeo=' options are very useful.
--
Matt Howard <mhoward@sigins.com>
Superior Insurance - Technical Services
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* Re: NFS/Samba alternatives?
2004-06-08 8:12 NFS/Samba alternatives? urgrue
2004-06-08 19:19 ` Matt Howard
@ 2004-06-09 7:09 ` Luca Ferrari
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From: Luca Ferrari @ 2004-06-09 7:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-admin
On Tuesday 08 June 2004 10:12 urgrue's cat walking on the keyboard wrote:
> Are there any decent alternatives to NFS and Samba when it comes to
> remote mounts? Both are quite awful at dealing with mounts over
> unreliable or slow lines. Last I checked Coda seemed quite incomplete
> and complicated. Any other suggestions?
Well, I'm succesful using SAMBA other ISDN lines and it works fine, better
than NFS, that seems to require more bandwith. Nevertheless, maybe AFS can
help you.
Luca
--
Luca Ferrari,
fluca1978@virgilio.it
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