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Date:      Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:45:41 -0500
From:      Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca>
To:        Nerius Landys <nlandys@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sshfs, nfs, etc. on FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <4B47DFC5.1050507@ibctech.ca>
In-Reply-To: <560f92641001081621j704c2aa9y8b1e3b13c1299b2d@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <560f92641001081621j704c2aa9y8b1e3b13c1299b2d@mail.gmail.com>

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Nerius Landys wrote:
> I'm looking for a lightweight, secure, and non-intrusive file sharing
> system for 2 servers in a data center.  For example I'd like to [as an
> ordinary user] temporarily mount the home directory (/usr/home/) of
> one server to a temporary mount point on the other server, and then,
> assuming my user has sufficient read permissions, I'd like to run some
> files in the home directories through a log file parser that I wrote.
> 
> Now I'm not a really big fan of NFS.  I've just heard about sshfs.  

Perhaps it would make it easier to understand if you stated *why* you
are not a fan of NFS...

> I don't really want to scp
> copy files between the 2 servers.

What is/would be your preferred method of transferring files? dragging
and dropping like in Windows, or will this be CLI-only access/usage?

iow, what 'style' of access are you looking for?

Steve



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