Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 22:23:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@MIT.EDU> To: Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: network filesystems (was Re: [ZFS] Using SSD with partitions) Message-ID: <alpine.GSO.1.10.1110182221500.882@multics.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <20111018042838.GA6246@icarus.home.lan> References: <CACh33Fpz=uAp8h0Bjsi1Be=ob_94jXtN51mAHvGPkReY5MpTcg@mail.gmail.com> <4E9AE725.4040001@gmail.com> <CACh33FpgTUEqsaTuSSOmRsGgk24K4%2BFuL90Zu-3v3F%2BRRtaOHw@mail.gmail.com> <20111018042838.GA6246@icarus.home.lan>
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On Mon, 17 Oct 2011, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > When it comes to networked filesystems on UNIX, we have very little > choice. NFS is the main one. Then there's Stanford's Coda filesystem > thing, or maybe that's now part of AFS, I don't know. Then there's Coda and AFS are different codebases, but implemenent similar sorts of things. I believe that Coda is still "research-grade", and I know that OpenAFS is not ready for production deployment on FreeBSD. (But I'm working on it.) -Ben Kaduk > sshfs, which sounds wonderful until you realise all the dependencies and > nuances involved (mainly due to use of fuse, which we know on FreeBSD is > not so great). Then there's Samba (CIFS/SMB, and now with Samba 3.6 > offering SMB2 for Windows 7 clients), but that gets into issues of > security and cannot be forwarded via SSH (e.g. VPN would be needed) > given all its protocol some of which are UDP (not sure what the state of > NetBIOS is).
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