On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 1:18 AM, nate
<centos@linuxpowered.net>
wrote:
Rudi Ahlers wrote:
> nate, why not? Is it simply
unavoidable at all costs to mount on system on
> another, over a WAN?
That's all I really want todo
If what you have now works, stick
with it.. in general network
file systems are very latency
sensitive.
CIFS might work best *if* your using a WAN optimization
appliance,
I'm not sure how much support NFS gets from those
vendors.
iSCSI certainly is the worst, block devices are very
intolerant of
latency.
AFS may be another option though quite a bit
more complicated, as
far as I know it's a layer on top of an existing file
system that
is used for things like replication
http://www.openafs.org/
I have no experience with it
myself.
Thanx nate, this is what I wanted to hear :)
So, is there any benefit in using NFS over SMB in this case?
Can't
speak for NFS(3/4), but i can tell you that that smb-protocol combined with high
latency is a recepy for disaster.
We
tried it from europe to the carribean (both sat or fibre) but users spent their
time more complaining then working.
Needed
horrible expensive lan-optimesers at both end
So
perhaps nfs4 or afs (later is intended for geographically separated machines,
afaicr)
but
certainly not smb!
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