Re: Samba vs NFS

From: Raul Dias (chaos_at_swi.com.br)
Date: 02/23/05

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    To: Andrew <Andrew@corbis.co.nz>
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 10:05:14 -0300

    On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 12:29 +1300, Andrew wrote:
    > in a linux to linux environment you might consider LUFS which lets u
    > mount files systems via ssh
    >
    >
    > LUFS is enabling you to mount into your file hierarchy a remote
    > computer's file system, which is accessible by various means (ftp,
    > ssh, etc.). Then, the access to the remote files will be completely
    > network transparent. In other words, you'll be able to read/modify
    > remote files as if they were local, watch movies/listen to MP3s from
    > FTP/SSH/Gnutella servers withoutcopying them locally. Sheer magic. Now
    > skip to the next section.
    >
    >
    > http://lufs.sourceforge.net/lufs/

    Really an interesting and helpful project. I can think already on tons
    of situation which I can use it :)

    The page never talks about locking. Of course most of filesystem would
    not (like ftp), but when using ssh, it might be very possible.

    Does it support locking ?

    Raul Dias

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