On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 7:51 AM, Robin Laing <Robin.Laing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Tom Horsley wrote: > > On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:09:09 -0400 > > "Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak" <mjc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> Mmm... I dream of an easy-to-use remote fs with automagical local caching... > > > > I dream of one that actually functions reliably. I can't believe > > how widely used NFS is, because it is the source of endless problems > > for me. I've never seen it work with any kind of reliability at all. > > One thing I'll say for samba is that the data actually seems to show > > up correctly on the other side :-). > > > > I have just started to try sshfs. I cannot say if I like it or not but > it is much easier to setup than NFS which I never got working correctly > since FC4. sshfs is a brilliant idea. I wonder about performance though. Considering how simple and useful it is, I wonder why I never hear anyone talking about it. Dave
