On Saturday 04 June 2011 02:40:12 William Kenworthy wrote: > On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 14:57 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: > > Am 03.06.2011 14:25, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > > > Apparently, though unproven, at 14:18 on Friday 03 June 2011, Volker > > > Armin > > > > > > Hemmann did opine thusly: > > >> On Friday 03 June 2011 13:37:54 Stéphane Guedon wrote: > > >>> On Friday 03 June 2011 12:55:58 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > >>>> Apparently, though unproven, at 12:44 on Friday 03 June 2011, > > >>>> Stéphane Guedon > > > > >>>> did opine thusly: > > [...] > > > > >>>> The point is that NFS was not designed with laptops and other > > >>>> devices that can be disconnected in mind. It was designed for > > >>>> secure LANs that do not change much, and laptops present issues > > >>>> that are not easy to solve. > > > > [...] > > > > >>> Nfs hasn't been designed for laptop, it's ok. But, appart from coda > > >>> (which has a file size limit of 1 giga, so, useless in home > > >>> networking), I know nothing that is fit for network file-sharing for > > >>> laptop (the laptop isn't the server of course). > > >>> > > >>> I search a solution for that since years ! > > >> > > >> samba? > > > > > > +1 > > > > > > Samba works nicely for ad-hoc connections, the kind of thing Windows > > > clients would do. And it's a lot more tolerant of connections going > > > away than NFS. > > > > I always was under the impression that NFS is more fault-tolerant on the > > network because of its usage of stateless UDP connections whereas CIFS > > usually freezes when the connection is lost. In the end, both issue an > > IO error, usually crashing an unprepared application. So, in which > > regard performs CIFS better with interrupted connections? > > > > That being said, I always use NFS over TCP because of performance issues > > with UDP and wireless LAN. > > > > Regards, > > Florian Philipp > > No, its ok in a fixed network but you get wierd issues like clients > hanging on shutdown because the NFS server goes away first, and its an > administrative pita when it stops working - could be firewall, something > missed in a new kernel etc. > > Ive been using it for mythtv and diskless systems (NFS over TCP) for > quite awhile and its a fight every few months to find out why host x > syuddenly doesnt want to play. But otherwise works well use wise in a > controlled environment. > > Laptops are a whole different matter though - you might be better off > side stepping if its only looking at media by looking into streaming > rather than storage mapping. Otherwise, Samba is probably the next > best. > > BillK
In home network, you share many types of files ! The first I think is DVD iso, which is huge (too large to go through coda) and not streamable... (but I admit it's not the best exemple !) You share also documents (tax papers scans, ilness and doctors certificates...). And I share first of all Portage tree and distfiles ! Medias can be streamed, but not that ! -- Stéphane Guedon page web : http://www.22decembre.eu/ carte de visite : http://www.22decembre.eu/downloads/Stephane-Guedon.vcf clé publique gpg : http://www.22decembre.eu/downloads/Stephane-Guedon.asc
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