Is there a NFS alternative?

Kostas Georgiou k.georgiou at imperial.ac.uk
Thu Feb 8 11:22:23 UTC 2007


On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 11:56:11AM +0100, Thomas M Steenholdt wrote:

> Daniel Yek wrote:
> >One other advantage of mounting the directory remotely is that the 
> >source files are then saved in that computer and the overhead of syncing 
> >the work two times a day is zero.
> >
> But all reads and writes will take place over the internet, which is a 
> major overhead in itself.

The cachefilesd daemon might help there, I never tried it though so it
might not even work with nfs+krb5.

Kostas Georgiou




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