What linux lacks most - a decent remote fs

Robin Laing Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Wed Mar 26 17:51:48 UTC 2008


Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:09:09 -0400
> "Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak" <mjc at avtechpulse.com> wrote:
> 
>> Mmm... I dream of an easy-to-use remote fs with automagical local caching...
> 
> I dream of one that actually functions reliably. I can't believe
> how widely used NFS is, because it is the source of endless problems
> for me. I've never seen it work with any kind of reliability at all.
> One thing I'll say for samba is that the data actually seems to show
> up correctly on the other side :-).
> 

I have just started to try sshfs.  I cannot say if I like it or not but 
it is much easier to setup than NFS which I never got working correctly 
since FC4.

yum install fuse-sshfs

http://fuse.sourceforge.net/sshfs.html

-- 
Robin Laing




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