On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 08:56:35PM -0400, Doug Alcorn wrote: > I'm interested in doing CODA file system over the internet. It has > all the features of a networked filesystem that I'm interested in. > The only problem seems to be that it requires the use of the > portmapper. From my NFS day, I seem to remember that portmapper is > insecure.
Unless you already have a CODA/Kerberos setup to tie into, or need the ability to work disconnected or some other CODA-specific feature, I'd consider SFS (http://www.fs.net/) -- no new filesystems or databases required, works like NFS, but without portmap listening on an external interface. Portmap *does* listen on localhost on the SFS server, but that's all. I plan on using it for file services to clients outside my local subnet. At least when I tested it, the speed wasn't great (2MB/s on a 100Mbit network, compared to 8MB/s with regular NFS on the same network and same sufficiently powerful machines), but that may have been a local configuration problem, fixed in more recent versions, or irrelevant to your situation. Woody and Sid should both have SFS packages already made, but those packages ported back to Potato with minimal effort several months ago. -- Mike Renfro / R&D Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
