On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 8:53 PM, Paul Boniol <[email protected]> wrote: > After the meeting tonight, a few of us were discussing an issue. > > I think I got all the issues involved listed below. > > 1. Server with lots of big files housed across the country. > 2. Remote facility has a 3 Mb line (for all customers) > 3. Local Nashville office has people who need to access the files. > 4. Windows boxes don't seem to have issues, but Linux has an issue with it > (especially directories with a large number of files). > 5. Having a local cache of the files would be prohibitive (for space > reasons). > 6. Administrators of remote server will not allow installation of SSH or > any other means of connecting to the share. > 7. Since Windows boxes (most clients) don't have a problem, there is no > problem on their end. > 8. There is a Linux box on the remote end, but again SSH or other means of > connecting is out.(?) > > After pondering this for a while, I think may help (to at least allow > browsing of what files are there) is to automatically cache the remote > directory structure on the local Linux box somehow.
here you go. just use this as a transport: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/MS12-036 it will get patched soon enough, but in the meanwhile, move some bits. > > A bit of Google searching and I found articles on FS-Cache and CacheFS. I > have no experience, I don't know how they work (and at least at the moment > need to run). > > Anyone else have thoughts on this? Or how to make a Linux CIFS mount more > efficient? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
