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Faeandar

2006-07-07, 1:15 pm

What are ALL the protocol options for file serving?

The obvious ones are:

NFS
CIFS
AFP
AFS

Does anyone have any others that I'm not thinking of? I know some
cluster vendors have their own client/protocol (Ibrix, Isilon) but
they only work on Linux. I need something that will work across
platforms.

Thanks.

~F
robertwessel2@yahoo.com

2006-07-07, 7:12 pm


Faeandar wrote:
> What are ALL the protocol options for file serving?
>
> The obvious ones are:
>
> NFS
> CIFS
> AFP
> AFS
>
> Does anyone have any others that I'm not thinking of? I know some
> cluster vendors have their own client/protocol (Ibrix, Isilon) but
> they only work on Linux. I need something that will work across
> platforms.



Don't forget NCP (Netware). There were also a bunch of (now mostly
obsolete) protocols used by various server vendors.

Faeandar

2006-07-07, 7:12 pm

On 7 Jul 2006 14:09:38 -0700, "robertwessel2@yahoo.com"
<robertwessel2@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
>Faeandar wrote:
>
>
>Don't forget NCP (Netware). There were also a bunch of (now mostly
>obsolete) protocols used by various server vendors.



I should have been more specific. I'm interested in protocol options
that could be used today.

I'm looking to put in place a file serving solution but NFS may not be
enough due to ACL's. And v4 is still a ways off...

~F
HVB

2006-07-08, 1:11 pm

On Fri, 07 Jul 2006 15:32:57 GMT, Faeandar wrote:

>What are ALL the protocol options for file serving?
>
>The obvious ones are:
>
>NFS
>CIFS
>AFP
>AFS
>
>Does anyone have any others that I'm not thinking of?


Depends on what kind of file serving you are thinking about doing but
if you want a complete list I'd add:

FTP and HTTP


HVB
A person, not a protocol ;)
Gunhaver05

2006-07-09, 7:12 pm

Can you give us an idea of what type of ACL you'll be working with?

Faeandar wrote:
> What are ALL the protocol options for file serving?
>
> The obvious ones are:
>
> NFS
> CIFS
> AFP
> AFS
>
> Does anyone have any others that I'm not thinking of? I know some
> cluster vendors have their own client/protocol (Ibrix, Isilon) but
> they only work on Linux. I need something that will work across
> platforms.
>
> Thanks.
>
> ~F


Faeandar

2006-07-11, 1:14 am

On 9 Jul 2006 11:57:02 -0700, "Gunhaver05" <jeff.abbott01@gmail.com>
wrote:
[vbcol=seagreen]
>Can you give us an idea of what type of ACL you'll be working with?
>
>Faeandar wrote:


For now it's just something more granular than NFS. AFS has great
ACL's but as a file system it's very slow.

CIFS/NTFS has decent ACL's but making a bunch of unix hosts run CIFS
may be difficult in this environment.

~F
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