From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QSSiv-0003FF-9X for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 03 Jun 2011 11:39:29 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0513E1C006; Fri, 3 Jun 2011 11:38:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp3-g21.free.fr (smtp3-g21.free.fr [212.27.42.3]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03C041C006 for ; Fri, 3 Jun 2011 11:38:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from luciole.localnet (0x5737e842.cpe.ge-1-3-0-1110.sdnqu1.customer.tele.dk [87.55.232.66]) (Authenticated sender: stephane.guedon2) by smtp3-g21.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 659B1A6271 for ; Fri, 3 Jun 2011 13:37:59 +0200 (CEST) From: =?utf-8?q?St=C3=A9phane_Guedon?= Organization: http://www.22decembre.eu To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] autofs Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 13:37:54 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.6 (Linux/2.6.37-tuxonice; KDE/4.6.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <201106031244.57456.stephane@22decembre.eu> <201106031255.58612.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201106031255.58612.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart9275508.8BDAgAgkGm"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201106031337.54808.stephane@22decembre.eu> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 3a5d5eb6838b9b62dfb1ffe45be2d763 --nextPart9275508.8BDAgAgkGm Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Friday 03 June 2011 12:55:58 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 12:44 on Friday 03 June 2011, St=C3=A9pha= ne > Guedon >=20 > did opine thusly: > > anyone use autofs to manage mounting of nfs on a laptop ? >=20 > Is this mounting a share from an nfs server onto a laptop? >=20 > > Is it fluent, > > easy to use ? >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > > How many shares maximum ? >=20 > 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=20 a file size limit of 1 giga, so, useless in home networking), I know nothin= g=20 that is fit for network file-sharing for laptop (the laptop isn't the serve= r of=20 course). I search a solution for that since years ! =2D-=20 St=C3=A9phane Guedon page web : http://www.22decembre.eu/ carte de visite : http://www.22decembre.eu/downloads/Stephane-Guedon.vcf cl=C3=A9 publique gpg : http://www.22decembre.eu/downloads/Stephane-Guedon.= asc --nextPart9275508.8BDAgAgkGm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iJwEAAECAAYFAk3ox5IACgkQPJH+in8bwIPp6QP9F93+gSovOnKm70QMF5Y5YInn jfJ+C4M/xo4xmyskAeshO9DG1QHt3rgL201Y03ssQebKWstT8s5yqGtm6of/sP15 tCh1TDrwvbzOKKhckmvw4/9IMV6qcA0h8vrukjM5V+JEw2sqGFjqMnucQ6eWO/27 x3soySBhwghYK4DP2A0= =Iy1M -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart9275508.8BDAgAgkGm--