On 08/16/2016 01:14 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
Anton Aylward composed on 2016-08-16 09:42 (UTC-0400):
Felix Miata wrote:
I'm guessing he's primarily interested in ease of use, which for the most part excludes cmdline utilities.
it depends on what you mean by 'ease of use'.
I mean ordinary minute to minute use, not periodic admin tasks like backup management. I mean things like being able to open a particular spreadsheet or group of form letters with equal ease from either of the two computers, or checking to see what time some doc recently worked with was last saved, something that would be facilitated if there were symlinks from various remote directories living in individual homes, with permissions appropriate for easy sharing.
Well, I was doing that with UNIX machines long before Linux; SCO linux, Xenix, SUNOS, early AIX, early HP/UX. And yes it was command line stuff. And yes there were spreadsheets before Windows or X11. mapped to todays terminology I would have something like this On machine A,B, C though ... have /mnt/NFS/Machines/ with subdirecotries for mount points for all the 'other' machines in the group. Have /etc/fstab soft mount the exported trees of the other machines there. An each of the machines A, B, C though .... NFS export what you want to share. You can make this as flexible as you need since you can also symlink. Until about 5 years ago I had a lightweight laptop for travelling and at 'home' had all my ~anton on the NFS server. I would work on the patio, in the lounge, on the laptop with a wifi connection and the ~anton/Documents of my server mounted to ~/Documents of my laptop. Once I tried a NFS mount on a transatlantic link with only a 56K link at one end. It worked; it was usable for CLI. I could edit using VI . To be honest, I've used IBM 3250 to mainframe synchronous links over a few miles that have had worse responsiveness. The bottom line is that NFS works, it works very well. It may take a bit of consideration, but works brilliantly on a LAN. Once mounted, for the vast majority of applications a NFS mounted file system behaves just like a local mounted file system. All that you describe as "ordinary minute to minute use" meet that, are quite transparent. "Tumblweweed" doesn't come into it. Being on the same LAN, just a switch apart, you can probably use NFS/TCP. I think you've mention that you have a fast network. That being the case, the network, the NFS wont be your limiting feature. -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org