Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:50:09 -0500 From: Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca> To: Nerius Landys <nlandys@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sshfs, nfs, etc. on FreeBSD Message-ID: <4B47E0D1.504@ibctech.ca> In-Reply-To: <4B47DFC5.1050507@ibctech.ca> References: <560f92641001081621j704c2aa9y8b1e3b13c1299b2d@mail.gmail.com> <4B47DFC5.1050507@ibctech.ca>
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Steve Bertrand wrote: > 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? ps. fwiw, if your parser is the only reason for this over-the-network access (ie. its a one-off thing), you could use that to your advantage and write that into your application. This is *trivially* easy if you are using Perl ;)
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