[Gllug] Filesystem available to both windows and linux

[James Courtier-Dutton]

On 29 March 2012 21:34, tid <td at bloogaloo.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Where I'm currently working, the storage environment has *ahem* 'grown
> organically' and there are a couple
> of infortrend iSCSI NAS boxes serving up storage to 2 linux servers,
> which then export these filesystems
> as samba shares to a mixture of linux and windows servers. Yes, you
> read that right. Linux to linux samba
> shares. I'm looking for a better solution, and given that the windows
> servers will eventually go away, am
> wondering what my options are. I could just go for straight NFS
> mounts, but will be serving small amounts
> of video so am wondering if there is a better solution ...
>

What do you see as being wrong with your current solution?
What are you trying to fix?
Samba is quite good as a networking file share protocol.

I quite like "sshfs".
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