On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 09:31:51 -0700 (PDT) "James A. Peltier" <jpelt...@sfu.ca> wrote:
> That fact that I am choosing to use it is somewhat irrelevant to the thread > but it exploded from the question of "why not to use NFSv4". I thought the original thread was concluded quite quickly in that it wasn't desired by the developers atleast. NFS was what turned me off CFS, so long ago. I still don't fully understand why your using it. I see the main reason as, it was easier than ipsec, because it was already half done. >>As for SFTP or any other method that would duplicate data, I have already >>discussed why it is not a possibility. SSHFS *was and still is* a >>possibility but it was ruled out because of our HPC needs. I can't seem to find this discussion and don't fully understand the point. I guess you mean disk caching by nfs. Which raises two questions to me, isn't the application likely to keep it in memory anyway or do your users often close and reopen the same file. If they must be authenticated to access the data, should it be cached and/or stored in a paging file.
