On Friday 16 March 2007, David Brodbeck wrote:
John Andersen wrote:
My point was, that without testing a samba or nfs transfer you have no way of judging the load imposed by scp.
I kind of wish there was a flag to tell scp to negotiate the password in a secure way, but *not* to encrypt the transfer. Often, when I'm copying files over a local network, I don't want or need the encryption overhead. But scp is so convenient for doing copies compared to the trouble of setting up an NFS mount (and then dealing with processes hanging in the D state every time the server is down.)
Yup, that and the permissions and uid problems are a headache. I end up using sftp/scp for a lot of stuff, but once I put samba on a machine its easier to use smb.cifs, and its plenty fast enough over a local net. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen