Is there a NFS alternative?

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Wed Feb 7 23:53:40 UTC 2007


On 2/7/07, Lamont Peterson <lamont at gurulabs.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 February 2007 01:27pm, Daniel Yek wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > It was a while ago when I read that NFS was difficult to secure with (the
> > use of) ssh and iptables (or something like that).
> >
> > I really needed an alternative that works and can be made secure. Is GFS a
> > suitable replacement for NFS? If not, what is the closest thing to NFS?
>
> Kerberized NFS, preferably NFS4.
>
> AndrewFS or CodaFS.
> --
> Lamont Peterson <lamont at gurulabs.com>
> Senior Instructor
> Guru Labs, L.C. [ http://www.GuruLabs.com/ ]
>

It sounds like there are those of you who actually get NFS4 to work. I
have tried twice on FC6, and have yet to succeed myself, just gave up
and used NFS3. I opened a thread on the general mailing list about it
but got no real help.


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