On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 1:18 AM, nate <centos at 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. > > nate > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Thanx nate, this is what I wanted to hear :) So, is there any benefit in using NFS over SMB in this case? The CIFS mounts can't be unmounted without a reboot, so they build-up a pool of mounts to the same server which cause extra latency -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers SoftDux Website: http://www.SoftDux.com Technical Blog: http://Blog.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100129/8ff81cd1/attachment-0005.html>