[OT-ish] nfs v. samba

[Todd Slater]

On 10/28/05, Michael R. Head <burner at suppressingfire.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 11:52 -0400, Todd Slater wrote:
> > > server's /etc/exports line:
> > > /home/users/albums *.burner(ro,all_squash,anonuid=65534,anongid=100,async)
> >
> > I don't have the sync option. Since I copy from client to server, I
> > need it writable. The options I have are (rw,async).
>
> Yeah, I consider nfs far too trusting to be used rw. I just have
> readonly shares on each machine that needs its data to be accessible to
> the other machines, but I usually just use nautilus's builtin sftp when
> I really do want to write to a remote machine.
>
> I have in the past made the share rw, but I don't recall any serious
> performance problems. I do use the nfs-kernel-server package, though,
> and my main nfs server is a debian box. All clients are ubuntu,
> though...

I have nfs-kernel-server on the server; I don't suppose I need that on
the client since it's not a server...

I wonder if reiserfs has anything to do with it?

Todd