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Thanks for the time-saving description. Osx also has a built-in NFS client.

• cwyers 12y ago
  Until Amazon starts offering EC2 OS X instances, I'm not sure that's as relevant.
  • echeese 12y ago
    I think it means you can mount an EFS instance on OS X
    • wmf 12y ago
      Yes, but NFS over the Internet may not be fast enough to be usable.
      • alrs 12y ago
        Back in olden times Linux installation floppies provided the option of installing from an NFS share.
      • zippergz 12y ago
        We 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 ago
          That'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 ago
      But you can only use efs with ec2, which doesn't support osx.
    • cwyers 12y ago
      No, 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 ago
    I assume Amazon can't offer EC2 OS X instances until Apple allows OS X to be virtualized
    • travem 12y ago
      FYI 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 ago
  Unfortunately it's fairly flaky release to release.