[CentOS] how does autofs deal with stuck NFS mounts and suspending to RAM?

Tue May 19 12:22:48 UTC 2020
Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>

On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 05:36:03PM -0600, Warren Young wrote:
> On May 18, 2020, at 5:13 AM, hw <hw at gc-24.de> wrote:
> > 
> > Is there a better alternative for mounting remote file systems
> > over unreliable  
> > connections?
> 
> I don’t have a good answer for you, because if you’d asked me
> without all this backstory whether NFS or SSHFS is more tolerant of
> bad connections, I’d have told you SSHFS. 

On the other hand, NFS is a fully-featured filesystem that supports
fancy features like locking and a full ACL system.  SSHFS is a FUSE
filesystem that will break a lot of software if you try to use it for
anything more complex than 'ls' and 'cp'.

For what it's worth, Samba with SMBv3 and the POSIX extension[1] is a
lot more tolerant of bad connections, and presents itself as a real
filesystem under linux.

1. https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/SMB3-Linux

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Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>