On 1/28/2010 5:13 PM, 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 You are introducing unpredictable delays and possible retries/disconnects into kernel layers that aren't very well prepared to deal with them. It may mostly work, but I assume you wouldn't be asking if you were happy with it. There might be something you could do with mirroring over DRDB if you are willing to duplicate the disk space on both sides - but you could use rsync for that too. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com