On Oct 29 07:22:22, James A. Peltier wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > | On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 06:05:28 -0700 (PDT) > | "James A. Peltier" <jpelt...@sfu.ca> wrote: > | > | > No I cannot just put and get. Moving hundreds of gigabytes of > | > medical imaging data around with FTP/SSH would be out of the > | > question. > | > | Why? > | > | I imagine you know but FTP/SSH != sftp > > Yes I do. I was lumping FTP,SCP, SFTP into that group of choices. > > | Do you think ssh is too slow and unreliable? > > I don't think it's too slow, I know it for my purposes > > | Don't you have a duty to secure that medical data for many reasons, > | obviously not jeopardising lives being paramount via reliability first > | and speed, does nfs offer that. > > Yes, but the data is mostly scrubbed of personal info. > > | Seems all you need is interfaces for sftp? > > At face value it would seem that way, but you need to remember that each and > every SFTP/SCP is a duplicate of the data. > > | >> and have their home directories be mounted on each of those > | >> platforms. > | > | >>I am using Solaris, OS X, GNU/Linux and Windows mostly > | > | > | If your trusting a windows gui!!! with this data then why are > | others using the commandline put and get. Are your windows users using > | dir and copy. > > No, the NFS share is re-exported out via Samba as a native CIFS mount to > Windows machines. It's a simple copy paste for them
"re-exported" puzzles me; you export the data via NFS to those clients who can speak NFS, and you export the same data via CIFS to those who speak CIFS. Right?
