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

[miloska at gmail.com]

> 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 ???
>

What do you want to use it for?

On Linux-only GlusterFS can be a good solution. It won't be lightening
fast, but has many nice features, like use multiple servers in mirror
and/or stripped mode (~RAID1 and RAID5).

http://ewan.to/post/278951058/gluster-replication

I use in my test system for a while and deploying in production very soon.