On Friday 03 June 2011 12:55:58 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Apparently, though unproven, at 12:44 on Friday 03 June 2011, Stéphane
> Guedon
> 
> did opine thusly:
> > anyone use autofs to manage mounting of nfs on a laptop ?
> 
> Is this mounting a share from an nfs server onto a laptop?
> 
> > Is it fluent,
> > easy to use ?
> 
> It's NFS. The words "nfs" and "fluent, easy to use" do not belong in the
> same sentence unless there's a "not" in the middle.
> 
> The point is that NFS was not designed with laptops and other devices that
> can be disconnected in mind. It was designed for secure LANs that do not
> change much, and laptops present issues that are not easy to solve.
> 
> > How many shares maximum ?
> 
> From a server? Hundreds, with ease. NFS is not the bottleneck, your shares
> are limited by how much bandwidth you have over the network.

Ok, it's a beginning.. :-) thank you !

Nfs hasn't been designed for laptop, it's ok. But, appart from coda (which has 
a file size limit of 1 giga, so, useless in home networking), I know nothing 
that is fit for network file-sharing for laptop (the laptop isn't the server of 
course).

I search a solution for that since years !

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