[clug] Super Dumb question. Network filesystems: NFS, CIFS and ???

steve jenkin sjenkin at canb.auug.org.au
Sat Apr 24 03:17:21 MDT 2010


Adam Baxter wrote on 24/04/10 6:36 PM:
> SSHFS is great until you try to use it on smaller, less powerful devices
> like my SheevaPlug - the transfers become CPU bound.

In 2000 I got 10Mbps out of a pair of 330Mhz SUN Sparc systems using SSH
(1?). They were multi-core machines, wasn't entirely a bust.

You can work out the cost-per-bit/bps in watts :-)


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