Questions tagged [network-filesystem]

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Secure Network Filesystems for Linux: What are people doing?

NFSv3 is widespread, but the default security model is... quaint . CIFS can use Kerberos authentication, but without POSIX semantics it's a non-starter. AFS never did encrypt traffic on the wire and is krb4 — and basically a dead project. Fancy new…
mattdm
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What can I do to replace FTP?

I'd like to replace FTP access with systems that are more secure. Sending passwords in plain text with no encryption is unacceptable and with single-sign-on growing, becoming less acceptable daily. The catch: I need something that supports Linux,…
jldugger
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Mounting Single San Drive on Multiple Hosts

I'm not sure exactly how to ask this, but here goes. We have a san. Within the san, we have the ability to connect a single volume to multiple systems as a raw disk. The Servers themselves would see it all as the same raw hdd. Our current…
Gravy
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Common filesystem for servers behind a rackspace load balancer

Our PHP application consists of a single web server that will receive files from clients and perform a CPU-intensive analysis on them. Right now, analysis of a single user upload can take 3sec to conclude and take 100% CPU. This makes our system…
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how to disable/remove nfs4 acl, and back to original linux access control?

I have add nfs4 acl for a directory in nfs client, but can not use "chown/chgrp" after add nfs4 acl, now I want to give up nfs4 acl, and back to original linux simple access control, how to ??? In standard linux acl, we can use setfacl -bn xxx file…
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Is it possible to import file system owned by a single user and export as multiple virtual volumes, owned by multiple users?

Is it possible to import a file system owned by a single user, (e.g. mounted via NFS) and export it again as multiple virtual volumes, owned by multiple users, where each volume is a folder on the single-user owned file system imported via NFS? The…
Samuel Lampa
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Distributed filesystem for storing temporary files

We have a cluster of web servers that currently stores temporary files (that have been uploaded by users) on a central shared filesystem. The limitation being that anytime the server containing the shared filesystem goes down our entire site is down…
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Is there a remote filesystem for Linux that's encrypted and resilient against unreliable servers?

I've tried many combinations of sshfs and SMB, with autofs and/or manual mounts in a Cron job, and I've always had freezing / long timeout issues when servers become unavailable or weren't available to begin with. My requirements are as follows:…
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Read only filesystem populated on demand

Basically I have a file system that is accessible both by NFS and ssh. I need a copy of this on my local. But I want to pull only those files that I need (basically cache them on demand). Since I'll be using this as a read-only fs the cache is…
Samarth S
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Reference network file in command line with SSH protocol

I'm trying to reference a file in the command line, but I keep getting the 'No such file or directory' error. The system uses SSH for the protocol. Examples (that cause error): grep regex <SERVER1:/home/app/log/biglog grep regex…
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Linux: Mount a remote disk stored on a custom storage

We have a non-standard storage (FS) on which we have flat disk images stored. We need to extract data from this raw image on a different host. The word "extraction" here means that I want to copy selective files & folders. The storage server does…
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Which network file systems can deal with huge amount of subdirectories?

I need a network file system that can be accessed from multiple machines as the same time and that it will still be able to keep like 100.000 subdirectories of a single directory. In case someone is wondering why having these requirements: the…
sorin
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Storing Solr indexes on a NFS mount

Are there are any performance considerations / drawbacks of storing Solr index files on a NFS mount?
Saqib Ali
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How to allow rw NFS share in a heterogeneous environment (GNU/Linux, Windows)

I have a NFS server on Ubuntu 20.04. My /etc/exports looks like /home/user2 10.4.200.2(rw,sync) /home/user3 10.4.200.3(rw,sync) On a Windows 10, I mount the folder using "Connect a network storage" (Sorry, it might not be an accurate translation…
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