Re: [Nolug] Sharing File Systems

On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 04:23:58PM -0600, Jonathan Roberts wrote:
> What about rsync over ssh?

rsync is ideal for mirroring things like config files; another option
is to use a versioning control repository where the remote boxes are
updated via cron or as a resulting action of the commit.

The benefit of using a repo in this way is that you could simply
update configuration files in the local copy on whatever machine
you're on which you find yourself. Windows has a few nice svn clients.

I would not use any sort of mounting of anything. It's just more
headache than it's worth...that is, if I understand the problem
described below properly.

Brett

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>
>
> On 1/2/09, John Souvestre <johns@sstar.com> wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > I have two situations in which sharing the file system on a Linux box would
> > be
> > handy. I'm looking at NFS, Samba and SSHFS. Any others I should be
> > considering?
> >
> > 1) This application is to allow access from one Linux box (master) to two
> > other
> > Linux boxes (slaves). The purpose is to allow scripting to keep the configs
> > for
> > some DNS servers tightly coordinated and easy to change. It's light duty as
> > not
> > much data will be moved and speed isn't important either.
> >
> > 2) This is to allow access from various Windows machines to various Linux
> > (and
> > a couple of FBSD) boxes for miscellaneous maintenance activities, editing
> > mostly. I haven't found a Linux editor I like enough to use for anything
> > other
> > than light editing. :)
> >
> > In both cases security and reliability must be great as the Linux boxes are
> > mostly online servers of various types. All the boxes are on the Internet,
> > some
> > behind firewalls of various types. Some of the boxes (both Linux and
> > Windows)
> > will be outside our network thus making a secure connection desirable.
> >
> > From what I gather, for Linux to Linux I should go with either NFS or Samba.
> > Any pro's or con's here? I did read some people saying that NFS had
> > security
> > and locking problems sometimes and that it should be consider obsolete in
> > favor
> > of Samba.
> >
> > For Windows to Linux Samba is what I see most mentioned but Microsoft seems
> > to
> > have a nice NFS client available too, so I don't know.
> >
> > Then I ran across mention of SSHFS. If I understand correctly, this
> > requires no
> > setup on the Linux client boxes at all, just SSH. I like this because like
> > putting as little as possible on the servers.
> >
> > SSHFS also plays nice with firewalls which can be a problem sometimes for
> > NFS
> > and Samba (is this so?). Finally, everything is encrypted which is nice
> > should
> > a box be outside our network.
> >
> > I have seen two inexpensive SSHFS windows clients, SFTPDrive and WebDrive.
> >
> > Any advice?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > John
> >
> > John Souvestre - Integrated Data Systems - (504) 355-0609
> >
> >
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