[nmglug] NFS vs. something else?

Jason Davis mohadib at openactive.org
Wed Jan 26 20:59:47 PST 2005


On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 20:30, Mars DeLapp wrote:
> Anyone know of anything that is better than NFS?
> 
> In my search for some NFS info I came across SFS http://www.fs.net and began to wonder is there is something better than 
> NFS. Anyone here tried SFS, openAFS or any other alternatives to NFS?
> 
> Mars


I have not used much other than nfs. What do you need for your
application? This will help define *better*. At the risk of offending
people I will suggest SMB .... It has file locking , its pretty quick
and is tcp based , also , it works on most any type of box.
(linux,mac,bsd,etc).


word,
jd





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