[TriLUG] RFOpinion: Best linux-linux network file sharing

[David Both via TriLUG]

Here's an article I wrote recently about SSSH filesystem. This works
really well for me.

How I use SSHFS to access remote filesystems 
https://www.both.org/?p=4407

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On Mon, 17 Mar 2025, Joseph Mack NA3T via TriLUG wrote:

> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2025 15:56:31
> From: Joseph Mack NA3T via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
> Reply-To: Joseph Mack NA3T <jmack at trilug.org>,
>     Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion <trilug at trilug.org>
> To: Stephen Wiley <swiley at swiley.net>,
>     Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion <trilug at trilug.org>
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] RFOpinion: Best linux-linux network file sharing
> 
> On Mon, 17 Mar 2025, Stephen Wiley via TriLUG wrote:
>
>>  NFS is a real pain
>
> I gave up on NFS at least a decade ago. You're always getting stale file 
> handles and having to reboot some machine which is doing other things and 
> can't be rebooted.
>
> I have all my files on a (zfs) fileserver. I keep local copies on my work 
> machine. At the end of a work session, I rsync the changes back to my 
> fileserver.
>
> My Makefiles have an edit: option which looks with rsync to the fileserver, 
> to see if I have the latest copy on my work machine, I pull the updates, do 
> my editing. If it compiles, I copy it back to the fileserver with a date 
> extension (eg myfile.2025.d070). (No I don't do RCS type versioning).
>
> Joe
>
>