I am continually struggling with the same thing. I have always disliked
NFS for a variety of reasons. Samba is an option. You can do samba over
ssl if you are working with linux machines all running samba, however it
does not mix with windows.
Also if you are on mandrake or possibly debian? then dav_fs is a real
high quality option. The file server can be apache 2 with a threading
model (pretty good performance) or several others out there. Redhat
seems to have problems with dav_fs more so than the others, I am not
sure why yet.
I have also been playing with sshfs which is on sourceforge but it seems
a little unstable.
My requirements almost always include encryption so that is the
direction I am coming from.
Sincerely,
David Uhlman
CTO 50KM Inc.
On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 22:51, Shadow wrote:
> dsaxena@plexity.net wrote:
>
> > As the subject suggests, I am looking for an alternative to NFS for
> > using as a network FS. My main use of NFS at the moment is to mount
> > /home and /var/spool/mail from my server. Everything is great until I
> > start doing something that does massive FS I/O and I start getting
> > "NFS server not respoding\nNFS server OK\n" errors. Anyone played
> > around with CODA, Intermezzo, or even NFS over TCP and have any
> > experiences regarding the reliability and stability under heavy
> > loads. Any other networks FS'es that I haven't mentioned?
>
> How about OpenAFS? nified directory space, transparent data migration,
> multiple server support, expandable, LDAP/Kerberos authentication - the
> only two things I would like to see is a Network based RAID and
> disconnected operation ala Coda.
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