[plug] Network filesystem recommendations?

Craig Ringer craig at postnewspapers.com.au
Tue Sep 2 22:45:06 WST 2003


>>NFSv4 looks like it might help, but it requires Kerberos. Yay. I'm /so/ 
>>thrilled. I've never really had the time to look into Kerberos, but it 
>>looks archaic and ugly at first impressions.
> 
> It can be a pain to set up, but it has worked really well for me in the
> past. Creation of a Kerberos system is not a user friendly process at all.
> Documentation was written by the same people who wrote all those old
> man pages everyone complains about. 

Well, I'm glad to hear it works well once up and running. That's something.

> i.e. Once you understand the topic, the man pages are a useful
> reference/reminder, but until then, they're pretty cryptic.

Hmm... sounds like LDAP (well, OpenLDAP anyway). Easy and obvious, but 
only once you already understand it.




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