From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 19 02:23:22 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF2BA106566B for ; Wed, 19 Oct 2011 02:23:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kaduk@mit.edu) Received: from dmz-mailsec-scanner-7.mit.edu (DMZ-MAILSEC-SCANNER-7.MIT.EDU [18.7.68.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DBB08FC0A for ; Wed, 19 Oct 2011 02:23:22 +0000 (UTC) X-AuditID: 12074424-b7ef76d0000008dc-21-4e9e34997345 Received: from mailhub-auth-1.mit.edu ( [18.9.21.35]) by dmz-mailsec-scanner-7.mit.edu (Symantec Messaging Gateway) with SMTP id 0B.01.02268.9943E9E4; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 22:23:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from outgoing.mit.edu (OUTGOING-AUTH.MIT.EDU [18.7.22.103]) by mailhub-auth-1.mit.edu (8.13.8/8.9.2) with ESMTP id p9J2NLOg007413; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 22:23:21 -0400 Received: from multics.mit.edu (MULTICS.MIT.EDU [18.187.1.73]) (authenticated bits=56) (User authenticated as kaduk@ATHENA.MIT.EDU) by outgoing.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id p9J2NJcC015843 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Tue, 18 Oct 2011 22:23:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from kaduk@localhost) by multics.mit.edu (8.12.9.20060308) id p9J2NIOR005263; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 22:23:18 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 22:23:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Benjamin Kaduk To: Jeremy Chadwick In-Reply-To: <20111018042838.GA6246@icarus.home.lan> Message-ID: References: <4E9AE725.4040001@gmail.com> <20111018042838.GA6246@icarus.home.lan> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (GSO 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Brightmail-Tracker: H4sIAAAAAAAAA+NgFnrNIsWRmVeSWpSXmKPExsUixCmqrDvTZJ6fwfz/+hbHHv9ks2j8cZrd gcljxqf5LB5rrl5lDWCK4rJJSc3JLEst0rdL4Mp42/2fveACe8W3m6uYGhib2LoYOTkkBEwk 1lztYoGwxSQu3FsPFOfiEBLYxyjxadZ1sISQwAZGiZP7giESB5gk3m/bwwzhNDBKHP26gRWk ikVAW+L9k4WMIDabgIrEzDcbwVaICOhJrF21A8jm4GAWkJK4s7YCJCws4Cbx98RFFpAwJ9AV f7/6gJi8AvYSyz44QEy/xSixouslO0i5qICOxOr9U8Du4RUQlDg58wmYzSxgKXHuz3W2CYyC s5CkZiFJLWBkWsUom5JbpZubmJlTnJqsW5ycmJeXWqRrrpebWaKXmlK6iREUpuwuKjsYmw8p HWIU4GBU4uHdITfPT4g1say4MvcQoyQHk5IorxAwyIX4kvJTKjMSizPii0pzUosPMUpwMCuJ 8N7hAMrxpiRWVqUW5cOkpDlYlMR5bXY6+AkJpCeWpGanphakFsFkZTg4lCR4OUGGChalpqdW pGXmlCCkmTg4QYbzAA0/ZwwyvLggMbc4Mx0if4pRUUqc9xZIQgAkkVGaB9cLSyOvGMWBXhHm FQRZwQNMQXDdr4AGMwENPqo4F2RwSSJCSqqBUV6hvCH5IO/Dxv8HGnVfKv7yStbzdqnYWHzj cVnP7FmHV4q8LHWccmXDhVPF5YbiTNdTam9Jz45dmXU9RtizydaS3yfKqadC7K79cqMHkwJK E1flLZrH9eXvbyn/PVO0D08Qzq/g/BZSu6AtViY/fom78r5p+uaZeSZzQn3+pZ/fsFr5dWil EktxRqKhFnNRcSIAJ1iAlf4CAAA= Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: network filesystems (was Re: [ZFS] Using SSD with partitions) X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 02:23:22 -0000 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).