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

Kim Holburn kim.holburn at gmail.com
Sat Apr 24 05:45:21 MDT 2010


ftpfs? (curlftpfs)

http + webdav?


On 2010/Apr/24, at 2:29 PM, steve jenkin wrote:

> Sorry to post such a blitheringly stupid question [hope it amuses  
> some].
>
> What are the non-raw filesystems available over the network?
> [specifically over ethernet Layer 2 or IP layer 3]
> [specifically not 'raw' methods like iSCSI or DAFS]
>
> - Sun's NFS. An oldie, but goldie, modulo bugs/slowness
> - CIFS/SMB. The one we love to hate :-)
> - and ???
>
> I presume Apple has something, but unique to their closed world.
>
> Plan 9 made a brave attempt at world unification/domination in  
> 1989/90.
> Seems to have gone nowhere/hibernation...
>
> Andrew File System (AFS) - been around for ages, but have never bumped
> into it. More about sharing local disks than accessing shared storage.
>
> Google's File System - proprietary isn't it?
>
> In this world of metadata and interesting filesystems, I thought there
> might be new ones in relatively common use I was missing.
>
> Wikipedia has a Category for Network File Systems:
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Network_file_systems>
>
> Sort of comments I was after:
> a) "I use XXX in production systems", and
> b) "I've seen/used YYY in research, home, small-scale"
>
> cheers
> steve
>
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