On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 14:57 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 03.06.2011 14:25, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > > Apparently, though unproven, at 14:18 on Friday 03 June 2011, Volker Armin > > Hemmann did opine thusly: > > > >> On Friday 03 June 2011 13:37:54 Stéphane Guedon wrote: > >>> On Friday 03 June 2011 12:55:58 Alan McKinnon wrote: > >>>> Apparently, though unproven, at 12:44 on Friday 03 June 2011, Stéphane > >>>> Guedon > >>>> > >>>> did opine thusly: > [...] > >>>> > >>>> The point is that NFS was not designed with laptops and other devices > >>>> that can be disconnected in mind. It was designed for secure LANs that > >>>> do not change much, and laptops present issues that are not easy to > >>>> solve. > [...] > >>> > >>> Nfs hasn't been designed for laptop, it's ok. But, appart from coda > >>> (which has a file size limit of 1 giga, so, useless in home networking), > >>> I know nothing that is fit for network file-sharing for laptop (the > >>> laptop isn't the server of course). > >>> > >>> I search a solution for that since years ! > >> > >> samba? > > > > +1 > > > > Samba works nicely for ad-hoc connections, the kind of thing Windows > > clients > > would do. And it's a lot more tolerant of connections going away than NFS. > > > > > > I always was under the impression that NFS is more fault-tolerant on the > network because of its usage of stateless UDP connections whereas CIFS > usually freezes when the connection is lost. In the end, both issue an > IO error, usually crashing an unprepared application. So, in which > regard performs CIFS better with interrupted connections? > > That being said, I always use NFS over TCP because of performance issues > with UDP and wireless LAN. > > Regards, > Florian Philipp >
No, its ok in a fixed network but you get wierd issues like clients hanging on shutdown because the NFS server goes away first, and its an administrative pita when it stops working - could be firewall, something missed in a new kernel etc. Ive been using it for mythtv and diskless systems (NFS over TCP) for quite awhile and its a fight every few months to find out why host x syuddenly doesnt want to play. But otherwise works well use wise in a controlled environment. Laptops are a whole different matter though - you might be better off side stepping if its only looking at media by looking into streaming rather than storage mapping. Otherwise, Samba is probably the next best. BillK -- William Kenworthy <bi...@iinet.net.au> Home in Perth!
