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?
>
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