NFS is capable of fantastic link failure handling. It's just set to lock the machine up by default. Not sure why that default was chosen, perhaps so that it would actually wait if the link was slow, but it is a stupid default in today's broadband environment. It isn't fair to blame a FS for stupidity in sharing anymore than it's fair to blame EXT3 for stupidity in the number of default inodes, which is WAY too low. (Or (since I'm bashing EXT2/3) the stupid 5% default for reserved space (that's 100 Gigs on a 2 TB system. I'd say it's overkill)...) Those things are dumb defaults, some admin wasn't thinking in a way that *I* understand. An example of poor design is that adding inodes means running mke2fs and wiping out the entire partition rather than tune2fs with some switch. If only the whole world use Reiser. (Maybe he'd have a prayer of staying out of jail).
Is it just me or am I providing proof of some type of ADD in this email. Kev. -----Original Message----- From: Ian Bruseker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 8:33 AM To: CLUG General Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Browsing a Linux network On 6/27/07, Gustin Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, no offence, but this is a silly question. Samba _has_ been > invented. You could say linux brought us FUSE which has a whole lot > of cool things, not the least of which is sshfs. None of this exists > in a vacuum so the question is at best moot. > > Samba is much more than "the Windows way". It is a legitimate project > in and of itself. The fact that it supports a legacy OS is a bonus :) > Ah, but what if you didn't have to support a legacy OS? ;-) > I have never been a fan of NFS, I guess I never could figure out how > to tune it properly. It always seemed to have issues when used over > WiFI or VPN links. Samba (used to refer both the SMB and CIFS > protocols) in my experience has performed better across a wider > variety of network topologies, never mind the edge it has in cross platform access. > I have to agree on NFS. Too many times I've tried it, only to have it lock up so badly I had to reboot. I tried it again the other day between two systems only to find my UIDs weren't matching and just sighed and did something else. > Rendezvous is essentially zeroconf. I have not used either, but then > I read the TCP/IP guide for fun, I cannot be trusted to make an > unbiased judgement of Rendezvous (a solution in search of a problem IMO). > Well, it is cool in that it broadcasts more than just file and print sharing. Like I said, it advertises that my Gentoo box offers SSH as well as the AFP share, and you can have it advertise other things like web servers, plus the obvious Apple-y things like iTunes and iPhoto sharing. Is iTunes sharing a critical infrastructure issue? Um, no, not really. But still cool. > There are lots of ways of solving this, though you do limit your > options by using Mac OS :) I had wanted a Mac since grade 3 and my first time using an Apple II and LOGO. I finally got my first Mac of my own when my wife bought me my PowerBook for my 31st birthday. Don't diss the Mac. ;-) Ian _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
