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 1QSTTX-0000Qg-Hu for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 03 Jun 2011 12:27:39 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 22AF51C042; Fri, 3 Jun 2011 12:26:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f41.google.com (mail-ww0-f41.google.com [74.125.82.41]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3AC21C042 for ; Fri, 3 Jun 2011 12:26:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwi18 with SMTP id 18so5087088wwi.4 for ; Fri, 03 Jun 2011 05:26:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references :in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :message-id; bh=hqguL6X8gByE+7Fgf/rm6H6tLW0gsrIunDwcXpBHjms=; b=YN+DBkd1Mgd/1slrVCSQlSYrf+SHyKg4Kh5jbYoq4sm7veDnDMyaHF04ElOB15NvUU 4odZoDLTH3jmrFb+b7V60rHGTXi+2Fo5ZC9vopJaJsW2lQZ2EHQ1OKalQsxF6g9ZBtXx HYbSsl77cuwBjSDCxhSBjxqBmIYy4tbx8jO9w= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=kx6IyRvAhzLdmWeWs6dAtt4Aw6wCIJRFLH9BoBjSm6fRAHYTW6MqU2hDpFXLvPzkpm 7OiDwYFONhbECt2p0eBPdGhqcoqKlqGBEAx0Ecc2GSzt4Fp/ccV+MN9VQYfxCHU9z7Ad TFuaWhOru7DL8WvebpkE0odHDjOIlGtBOBQeI= Received: by 10.216.145.131 with SMTP id p3mr1763734wej.82.1307103977009; Fri, 03 Jun 2011 05:26:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (dustpuppy.is.co.za [196.14.169.11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id n20sm814420weq.39.2011.06.03.05.26.15 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 03 Jun 2011 05:26:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] autofs Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 14:25:31 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.39-ck; KDE/4.6.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <201106031244.57456.stephane@22decembre.eu> <201106031337.54808.stephane@22decembre.eu> <4541232.ejeL7krNmS@localhost> In-Reply-To: <4541232.ejeL7krNmS@localhost> 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: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Message-Id: <201106031425.31441.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 335d3024806de607a64737328a70e712 Apparently, though unproven, at 14:18 on Friday 03 June 2011, Volker Armi= n=20 Hemmann did opine thusly: > On Friday 03 June 2011 13:37:54 St=E9phane Guedon wrote: > > On Friday 03 June 2011 12:55:58 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > Apparently, though unproven, at 12:44 on Friday 03 June 2011, St=E9= phane > > > 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 i= n > > > the same sentence unless there's a "not" in the middle. > > >=20 > > > The point is that NFS was not designed with laptops and other devic= es > > > that can be disconnected in mind. It was designed for secure LANs t= hat > > > 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. > >=20 > > Ok, it's a beginning.. :-) thank you ! > >=20 > > 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 networkin= g), > > I know nothing that is fit for network file-sharing for laptop (the > > laptop isn't the server of course). > >=20 > > I search a solution for that since years ! >=20 > samba? +1 Samba works nicely for ad-hoc connections, the kind of thing Windows clie= nts=20 would do. And it's a lot more tolerant of connections going away than NFS= . --=20 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com