[Gllug] NFS replacement

[Richard Cottrill]

*dons flame retardant suit*

Although I haven't heard mention for a while; I understand that Microsoft's
next-generation of NTFS is supposed to present a database as the file
system. For mine, this implies some advanced level of "smarts". God forbid
that M$ should manage just such a nifty trick as having the file system know
about the source locations of files and act intelligently on this knowledge.

Ok, so it's just another play to make data on M$ partitions inaccessible,
but at least there's a possibility of real gain in the process. I think the
idea is pretty groovy; even if it does make dual boot systems just a bit
more of a PITA.

I've read about a kernel module that will represent any kind of hierarchical
data as a file system (name escapes me). Anyone have comments on the same?

Is there such a thing as a network-aware (rather than network transparent)
file system?

Just musing after a long day...

Richard


> -----Original Message-----
> From: gllug-admin at linux.co.uk 
> [mailto:gllug-admin at linux.co.uk]On Behalf
> Of Dylan
> Sent: 24 February 2003 18:46
> To: gllug at linux.co.uk
> Subject: Re: [Gllug] NFS replacement
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> Dylan
> -- 
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