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

[Mauricio Tavares via TriLUG]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 3:58 PM Joseph Mack NA3T via TriLUG
<trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
      Interesting: I have been using NFS to automount my home dir at
home for many years. Only time I had an issue was when the storage
appliance itself -- an old synology thingie -- died, and for now has
been replaced with a vm running as fileserver.

> 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).
>
      For coding, notes (I use text files), ansible playbooks, and
docker stuff I use an internal git repo.

> Joe
>
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