[Gllug] NFS replacement

[Pete Ryland]

On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 08:56:00PM +0000, Dylan wrote:
> > On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Dylan wrote:
> > > On Monday 24 February 2003 17:11, Formi wrote:
> > > >  Hello
> > > >
> > > >  I have a lot of nfs shares on my server, some of them are ports
> > > > systems for OpenBSD and FreeBSD, plus /usr/src.
> > > >
> > > >  Obviously I find myself many times in the situation that I have files
> > > >  moving across the network, to the clients, when the destination is the
> > > >  server, and the origin is also the server.
> > >
> > > You mean you are copying from server.box:/directory1 to
> > > server.box/directory2? Why don't you just ssh the server and do it that
> > > way. Alternatively, scp might offer something.
> >
> >   None of those would help, imagine this scenario, you have the
> >  kernel-source.rpm in server, then you try to install it, but /usr/src is
> >  mounted in server:/usr/src. If you kick rpm from the client, you will
> >  have the files moving all over the place.
> 
> Yes, IC your point. To over come this, every application and command which 
> accessed files would (potentially) need to network-aware/transparent, surely. 
> Because the app would need to find out (on each execution) whether any of the 
> files it was using were networked and act accordinglt. I thought the whole 
> point of network transparency was to make this unneccessary.

Hmm.. you may find it of interest that the gnome-vfs library has, for each
file, a flag that can tell you whether the file is local or remote.

Pete
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