From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 26 10:09:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA12305 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 10:09:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from uhura.concentric.net (uhura.concentric.net [206.173.119.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA12177 for ; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 10:08:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Ashort@concentric.net) Received: from marconi.concentric.net (marconi [206.173.119.71]) by uhura.concentric.net (8.8.8/(98/05/18 5.10)) id NAA04761; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 13:08:35 -0400 (EDT) [1-800-745-2747 The Concentric Network] Received: from voyager.cris.com (voyager.concentric.net [206.173.119.82]) by marconi.concentric.net (8.8.8) id NAA29812; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 13:08:34 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 12:08:34 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Short X-Sender: Ashort@voyager.cris.com To: Julian cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network File System In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Approved: Maxwell House Rich French Roast MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > There are, that I know of, no (free) decent Network Filesystems for Unix > that work as a Unix filesystem. NFS looks like a Unix filesystem, > but has problems too innumerable to mention. Coda is a developing project...it's still very buggy (and very alpha) but it could be worth a look. I know that I will be pounding on it a little bit in the future. I don't know much about NFS, but Coda is sure to be (at this point) far worse than any other file system. But...like I said...it's a very complex system that they are STILL developing. > SMB is (despite the microsoft connections) is a reasonable network The only real m$ connection to SMB that I can make is that of a POOR implementation of it. "Windows networking" has come to mean SMB on netbeui...EEK! REAL SMB networking (IMVHO) is on ROUTED TCPIP ala Samba. > As an aside/addendum, does anyone know of a decent network filesystem > that FreeBSD can support? This would be helpful specifically to I don't know about "decent" yet, but I know that Coda has a really big "COOL!" factor to it, and if you can afford the servers, mirroring the fs is supposed to be a snap. Not really a recommendation, but definitely a "you should give it a look". ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew Short Colossians 3:23 ashort@concentric.net http://www.concentric.net/~ashort/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message