From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 9 01:50:26 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 CE2CB1065679 for ; Sat, 9 Jan 2010 01:50:26 +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 058BD8FC08 for ; Sat, 9 Jan 2010 01:50:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 60721 invoked by uid 89); 9 Jan 2010 01:49:42 -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 01:49:42 -0000 Message-ID: <4B47E0D1.504@ibctech.ca> Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:50:09 -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> <4B47DFC5.1050507@ibctech.ca> In-Reply-To: <4B47DFC5.1050507@ibctech.ca> 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 01:50:26 -0000 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 ;)