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NFS is what you use if you want seamless file shares on Linux. Pretty much every other option has been junky or lost me data.
by selfhoster11 5y ago
NFS is what you use if you want seamless file shares on Linux. Pretty much every other option has been junky or lost me data.
- adrian_b 5y agoIt depends on what kind of data is important for you. In my Linux file systems (and also in my FreeBSD file systems), extended attributes are very important for me. The older NFS versions (v2, v3 and early v4, before Linux 5.9) do not support extended attributes, so I was always forced to use Samba shares, which for me worked OK, including with the sharing between Linux and FreeBSD.
- selfhoster11 5y agoI'm just happy with the files themselves being intact, but IME even that was difficult to achieve with non-NFS solutions. SMB was notoriously difficult to set up, and things like WebDAV or SFTP would have severe write loss problems when I tried to use them like an interactive local filesystem. NFS is rock stable.