NFS Over Internet

[david at thekramers.net (David Kramer)]

miah wrote, On 08/06/2004 07:33 PM:
> 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.

Glad I read your post before replying; I was going to mention rsync.  If you 
need to synchronize bidirectionally, consider unison.


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