----- Original Message ----- | On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 06:05:28 -0700 (PDT) | "James A. Peltier" <jpelt...@sfu.ca> wrote: | | > No I cannot just put and get. Moving hundreds of gigabytes of | > medical imaging data around with FTP/SSH would be out of the | > question. | | Why? | | I imagine you know but FTP/SSH != sftp
Yes I do. I was lumping FTP,SCP, SFTP into that group of choices. | Do you think ssh is too slow and unreliable? I don't think it's too slow, I know it for my purposes | Don't you have a duty to secure that medical data for many reasons, | obviously not jeopardising lives being paramount via reliability first | and speed, does nfs offer that. Yes, but the data is mostly scrubbed of personal info. | Seems all you need is interfaces for sftp? At face value it would seem that way, but you need to remember that each and every SFTP/SCP is a duplicate of the data. | >> and have their home directories be mounted on each of those | >> platforms. | | >>I am using Solaris, OS X, GNU/Linux and Windows mostly | | | If your trusting a windows gui!!! with this data then why are | others using the commandline put and get. Are your windows users using | dir and copy. No, the NFS share is re-exported out via Samba as a native CIFS mount to Windows machines. It's a simple copy paste for them | I do understand that you may be reluctant to change to something tried | and tested but then your moving to nfsv4. It was the most logical step considering where we were and our needs. -- James A. Peltier Systems Analyst (FASNet), VIVARIUM Technical Director Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.fas.sfu.ca | http://vivarium.cs.sfu.ca http://blogs.sfu.ca/people/jpeltier MSN : subatomic_s...@hotmail.com
