----- Original Message ----- | On Oct 29 06:54:07, James A. Peltier wrote: | > <snip> | > | > 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. | > | | > | Yet moving hundreds of gigabytes of medical imaging data | > | around with NFS is OK. More specifically yet, moving them | > | around with NFSv4 is OK, but moving them around with NFSv3 | > | is not. Right? | > | | > | Let's stay technical: what exactly does NFSv4 do for you in your | > | situation that NFSv3 does not? "Kerberos security", as in "users | > | authenticate themselvzes"? "Firewall friendly"? How exactly is | > | NFSv4 more "firewall friendly" than NFSv3? | > | | > | (Don't get me wrong: I want a multi-platform shared storage too. | > | I do it with NFSv3. You use NFSv4, Kerberos, and Samba. How | > | exactly | > | is that better?) | > | | > | Do you need file access or file transfer, in the sense of | > | Callahan's standard "NFS Illustrated" book? | > | | > | Jan | > | > Okay, while we do employ NIS/NFSv3 now. this is on a completely | > segmented network. The data that is being transferred is separate | > from the rest of the network. | > | > In the new setup this will not be the case. | | You should have stated this clearly in the original mail: | "we have a properly segmented/isolated network where we use | NFSv3 to share data. Now the network will no longer be segmented | and/or isolated. So I think I need NFSv4 now". | <snip>
I had already pointed out that this network was segmented from the rest and I was not asking if I should use NFSv4. I was pointing out why someone might choose NFSv4. That fact that I am choosing to use it is somewhat irrelevant to the thread but it exploded from the question of "why not to use NFSv4". -- 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
