From: Matt Howard <mhoward@sigauto.com>
To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NFS/Samba alternatives?
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 14:19:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ca53fh$df7$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20040608081218.GA3880@fede2.tumsan.fi
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-08 19:19 UTC|newest]
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2004-06-08 8:12 NFS/Samba alternatives? urgrue
2004-06-08 19:19 ` Matt Howard [this message]
2004-06-09 7:09 ` Luca Ferrari
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