On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 01:08:14PM -0400, Brad Allen wrote: > erbenson> NFS is insecure, deal with it. > > Such as use something besides NFS that is secure; the options are thin > and immature, but you may still look around because I have a feeling > there may be a good match, if you're willing to sacrafice admin time > to the task. For instance, I'm curious if CODA has played this trick. > They talk about distribution, security, etc. Plus, administration of > local disk caches could become really easy with CODA -- 4GB disk > cache, now that's nice; it's as if you only really have one machine in > some administrative senses. Now, somebody tell me if I'm wrong. > There is a whole page of Linux filesystems besides EXT2 and NFS out > there someplace. Find it and take a good research if you have the > time.
If you're willing to invest the time to learn it properly, I recommend AFS as a solution. The linux port is a little immature, but coming along surprisingly well. See www.openafs.org for (not much) more information, and: deb http://www.mit.edu/afs/sipb/project/openafs/debian packages/ for some preliminary packages. Dan /--------------------------------\ /--------------------------------\ | Daniel Jacobowitz |__| SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer __ Carnegie Mellon University | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \--------------------------------/ \--------------------------------/
