[ale] File systems for hetergeneous networks?

[Jim Kinney]

since most places work from a document model (word processing, spreadsheet,
etc) a document management tool would handle that aspect.

If they do code, then any of the code management tools like git will work
fine.

It does work OK to use cifs on a beefy server as a general purpose file
server but the Linux crowd will have to limp. There are NFS tools for
Windows but they pretty much suck.

In short, I've not seen a cross-platform general purpose, scalable,
network-based filesystem that isn't cobbled together.

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Michael B. Trausch <mike at trausch.us> wrote:

> On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 15:23 -0400, Andrew Sledge wrote:
> > A VPN link didn't do it for you? If not, why wouldn't this work? What
> > have you tried?
>
> A VPN link is what would be used in order to connect the two networks
> together.
>
> I'm looking for a way to essentially have single sign on and shared
> filesystems that can be accessed efficiently between two geographically
> diverse locations with a low-latency (but also low-bandwidth) connection
> between them.
>
> That is to say that there should be a way for both networks to use the
> same network filesystem, to agree on the owners and status of file
> locking mechanisms, and to be able to transmit changes as soon as they
> happen to the other side (or at least notify the other side that changes
> occurred).
>
>        --- Mike
>
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