Re: Alternatives To NFS?
"Charlie Grosvenor" <charliemail@cgrosvenor.co.uk> writes:
> Is there any alternative to NFS that I can use to mount my home
> directory on my server?
If you have enough space on your client machines there are always the
distributed filesystems: OpenAFS, CODA, Inter-Mezzo. They keep your
filesystem on both ends of the mount.
If you need something centralized like NFS you can use Samba instead
of an NFS server and mount the homes via SMB.
The better way would of course be to locate your special problem with
NFS (did you try restricting NFS to version 2 or version 3?) rather
than avoiding NFS completely.
BTW: I remember that I had NFS lockups everytime I transferred huge
files (several 100 Megabytes) between two machines with cheap network
adaptors. Changing these adaptors to other (but also cheap) cards
solved the problem.
[x] ulf
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