What linux lacks most - a decent remote fs

Dave Burns tburns at hawaii.edu
Wed Mar 26 19:45:20 UTC 2008


On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 7:51 AM, Robin Laing
<Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca> wrote:
> Tom Horsley wrote:
>  > On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:09:09 -0400
>  > "Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak" <mjc at avtechpulse.com> wrote:
>  >
>  >> Mmm... I dream of an easy-to-use remote fs with automagical local caching...
>  >
>  > I dream of one that actually functions reliably. I can't believe
>  > how widely used NFS is, because it is the source of endless problems
>  > for me. I've never seen it work with any kind of reliability at all.
>  > One thing I'll say for samba is that the data actually seems to show
>  > up correctly on the other side :-).
>  >
>
>  I have just started to try sshfs.  I cannot say if I like it or not but
>  it is much easier to setup than NFS which I never got working correctly
>  since FC4.

sshfs is a brilliant idea. I wonder about performance though.
Considering how simple and useful it is, I wonder why I never hear
anyone talking about it.
Dave




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