[TriLUG] mount cifs problem

Kevin Otte nivex at nivex.net
Sun Feb 5 00:28:36 EST 2012


Not only less efficient, but there are valuable locking semantics that
are missing. If you are the only one who is ever using it at a given
moment, all fine and dandy. If you are going to be in a truly multiuser
environment, sshfs won't scale.

As always, the right tool for the right job.

On 02/04/2012 06:24 PM, Alan Porter wrote:
> 
>> Off topic but I found it easier to set up NFS and Windows
>> tools for UNIX than Samba.
> 
> On a similar note, I have moved to sshfs for all of my
> Linux-to-Linux network filesystem sharing.  It might be
> ever-so-less efficient, but it sure is flexible, and it's
> really easy to get the permissions right.
> 




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