Network file systems

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 30 May 2007, Michael Hipp wrote:
> Is there a "network file system" that has all the features of a true Linux
> file system (e.g. ext3)? I'm thinking of features like inodes, hard links,
> soft links, unix security model, mtimes and atimes, journalling.
>
> I know samba pretty well and it doesn't do this AFAICT as it basically
> emulates a FAT32 fs over the wire.
>
> Does NFS do this? Is there some other "n. f. s." that does? (I read opinions
> of NFS not being all that stable.)
>
> Can you do RAID over the network?

I don't understand what you're trying to accomplish.  NFS (and every other 
networked filesystem that I've ever used) has no understanding of the 
underlying disk structure.  It sits on top of the real filesystem on disk, 
which has inodes, etc.

What is the problem that you're trying to solve?

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