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Salient points: - NFS (v4). - Supports petabyte-scale file systems, thousands of concurrent NFS connections. - Automatically grows/shrinks in size. - Multi-
by DenisM 12y ago
Salient points:
- NFS (v4).
- Supports petabyte-scale file systems, thousands of concurrent NFS connections.
- Automatically grows/shrinks in size.
- Multi-zone storage and access.
- $0.30 / (Gigabyte * month).
- (Not mentioned) Both Linux and Windows have built-in NFS clients.
- jstoiko 12y agoThanks for the time-saving description. Osx also has a built-in NFS client.
- cwyers 12y agoUntil Amazon starts offering EC2 OS X instances, I'm not sure that's as relevant.
- echeese 12y agoI think it means you can mount an EFS instance on OS X
- wmf 12y agoYes, but NFS over the Internet may not be fast enough to be usable.
- alrs 12y agoBack in olden times Linux installation floppies provided the option of installing from an NFS share.
- zippergz 12y agoWe used to do it over 10Base-T, which is slower than a lot of residential connections now. Well, latency will be higher over the internet, but bandwidth will be ok.
- dekhn 12y agoThat's the whole point. Since NFS is such a round-trip oriented protocol, it's very sensitive to latency. You'll never fill up the bandwidth unless you do large bulk transfers in parallel.
- Drdrdrq 12y agoBut you can only use efs with ec2, which doesn't support osx.
- cwyers 12y agoNo, it doesn't. From the announcement: "Only Amazon EC2 instances within the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) you specify can directly access your Amazon EFS file systems."
- cozzyd 12y agoI assume Amazon can't offer EC2 OS X instances until Apple allows OS X to be virtualized
- travem 12y agoFYI OS X can be virtualized, but only run on Apple hardware. VMware have some details on the other caveats here -> http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2005793 http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?langua...
- cmurf 12y agoUnfortunately it's fairly flaky release to release.
- e40 12y agoFor comparison, EBS is $0.10 / GB / Month for SSDs and $0.05 / GB / Month for regular disks.
- kevinbowman 12y agoBut this is EBS + redundant NFS-mountable server, which is at least worth 2 EC2 instances as well as 2 x the EBS cost, which makes the equivalent ~$100 per month (m3.mediums) plus $0.20/GB/month for SSDs.
- hrez 12y agoFor comparison, keep in mind that EBS is $0.10/Gb per provisioned storage, which is often over-provisioned. Versus EFS $0.30/Gb per utilized storage.
- 616c 12y ago> - (Not mentioned) Both Linux and Windows have built-in NFS clients. Does anyone use the NFS for Windows? Is it reliable enough I can move servers away from CIFS alogether if I want to access a Linux box from Windows. For instance if I click the folder's Properties in Windows, will I see the proper Unix perms and metadata and be able to edit them?
- tracker1 12y agoFYI: In windows (desktop versions) it's only now in the "Enterprise" version, and apparently will be removed in Windows 10. Not sure if there are limitations to which server versions are currently supported. CIFS/SAMBA in Linux has been pretty good, imho for the past couple years... though I still get some occasional wonky behavior from my NAS box.