NFS Over Internet (was: ... Beowulf (cluster) installations?

[jjohnson at sunrise-linux.com (miah)]

Personally, if I had an array of systems that needed the same data on
each disk, and I couldn't use something like NFS, I'd be setting up
rsync.  When I worked at turbolinux, we were using rsync to syncronize
the passwd and shadow files among the servers, it was a cool hack that
didnt require NIS.  There will be a lag in things being sync'd, but
atleast the user wouldn't have to sftp the file to each server.  If
the user did have to sftp, there would probably be even more lag due
to the probably of them transfering to one server at a time and having
to type in their password.

-miah

On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 07:22:53PM -0400, Jeff Kinz wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 04:12:30PM -0400, gboyce at badbelly.com wrote:
> > On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, Jeff Kinz wrote:
> > > Looks like you want a VPN:
> > > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/VPN-HOWTO.html
> > > (This only works with Linux versions from 1991 and later.. :)
> > >
> > > I reccomend using ssh and scp instead of ftp based utilities.
> > 
> > sftp works well, and should exist on any machine running a recent version 
> > of openssh.
> 
> yup, sftp is preferable to plain ftp as well.  Another good choice, and
> it may be easier to use depending on your background.
> -- 
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> 
> Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA.
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