From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Howard Subject: Re: NFS/Samba alternatives? Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 14:19:12 -0500 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: References: <20040608081218.GA3880@fede2.tumsan.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org 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 Superior Insurance - Technical Services