From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 9 01:45:58 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 140FF106566B for ; Sat, 9 Jan 2010 01:45:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@ibctech.ca) Received: from smtp.ibctech.ca (v6.ibctech.ca [IPv6:2607:f118::b6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8FE4C8FC0C for ; Sat, 9 Jan 2010 01:45:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 60663 invoked by uid 89); 9 Jan 2010 01:45:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?IPv6:2607:f118:2:8000:6c40:5587:189f:485e?) (steve@ibctech.ca@2607:f118:2:8000:6c40:5587:189f:485e) by 2607:f118::b6 with ESMTPA; 9 Jan 2010 01:45:14 -0000 Message-ID: <4B47DFC5.1050507@ibctech.ca> Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:45:41 -0500 From: Steve Bertrand User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nerius Landys References: <560f92641001081621j704c2aa9y8b1e3b13c1299b2d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <560f92641001081621j704c2aa9y8b1e3b13c1299b2d@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sshfs, nfs, etc. on FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2010 01:45:58 -0000 Nerius Landys wrote: > I'm looking for a lightweight, secure, and non-intrusive file sharing > system for 2 servers in a data center. For example I'd like to [as an > ordinary user] temporarily mount the home directory (/usr/home/) of > one server to a temporary mount point on the other server, and then, > assuming my user has sufficient read permissions, I'd like to run some > files in the home directories through a log file parser that I wrote. > > Now I'm not a really big fan of NFS. I've just heard about sshfs. Perhaps it would make it easier to understand if you stated *why* you are not a fan of NFS... > I don't really want to scp > copy files between the 2 servers. What is/would be your preferred method of transferring files? dragging and dropping like in Windows, or will this be CLI-only access/usage? iow, what 'style' of access are you looking for? Steve