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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>
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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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