Þann Þriðjudagur 04 janúar 2005 03:00 skrifaði elefino:
Great. My wife's machine would default to Linux, but she'd often shutdown and reboot into Win98. Also, she likes to shut off a PC when nobody is sitting in front of it. Sounds like NFS could make me unhappy about twice per day... assuming I ever get it working. . . :-)
You got it the other way around ... you use the box that's up "all" the time to export. The example in which NFS hangs, is if you make it mount "hard" instead of "soft". It's an option, that does default to "hard". This is necessary, because in many cases NFS is used to export file systems, that the clients are "dependant" on. This means, that if the NFS server goes down (like your upstairs computer), then the client (your downstairs computer) will wait for it to come up again, before it can do any saves to, or reads from those exports.
What have you heard about AFS... the scary bits, I mean?
Scary bits, as far as I've heard is that it's kerberos(heimdal) based and can be a hassle to have around. It requires you to acquire a token, etc. There is a never version of that file system, called "coda" that handles encryption, and who knows what. But I've never found any need to go into AFS or coda ... but I know those who are worried about the man in the middle, or security issues prefer them for NFS.
Kevin (the unsharing)