[Gllug] NFS replacement

[Dylan]

On Monday 24 February 2003 18:41, Formi wrote:
> Formi
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>
> 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.

I think you'll have to hack it up yourself!

Still, I suppose you could just copy the rpm locally? I take it the rpm, clent 
and remote:/urc/src are 'compatible'.

Dylan

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