[PLUG] NAS System suggestions

alan at clueserver.org alan at clueserver.org
Fri Jun 24 23:26:58 UTC 2016


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>> I do not see too many positives for using SMB on linux, without real
>> samba
>> user space mount option available.
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> As much as I hesitate to spend any time advocating for M$-originated
> technologies, I must say I do not see the challenge here. I mount SMB
> shares (from all walks of OS life) in my userspace without any elevated
> privileges all the time. When I need them to persist, I write a cronjob to
> monitor their status and restore them as needed.
>
> If I had a truly enterprise class problem to solve, I would go to the
> extra
> effort of getting NFS to work. Then, it usually remains working for the
> remainder of the life of the universe.

My only concern would be making sure the underlying file system was case
sensitive and supported the proper file system extensions. (Such as
SE_LINUX labels.)




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