[Leaplist] discussion - ways to share/access data

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Wed, 11/5/08, Jason Boxman <jasonb at edseek.com> wrote:
> I have found nothing I particularly love thus far.  I have
> big stuff, like VMs, on my /home, so I keep it locally.  I
> don't have the bandwidth to export it over NFS and keep
> any reasonable performance.

I would absolutely _never_ use images over NFS mounts (other
than read-only resources, like CD/DVD images).  And there
is rarely ever a need to.

Most VM solutions can be used remotely, so you are actually
running on the local system to their store, while pumping
their display remotely.

> I centralize all mail via IMAP.  That's about the only
> part of the problem that's been well solved for ages
> now.

Agreed.  IMAP rules.

> I've seen a few interesting solutions using git as the
> backend store, but they're all fragile.

Version control systems are absolutely ideal for solving
the "working v. published" versions.  It's easy to diff
and merge -- the latter being a major reason why a number
of people prefer the new crop of distributed systems
(like git).  I still prefer Trac+Subversion as a total
workflow solution, but that may change in the near future.

> I just stick entirely read-only shared stuff, like photos,
> on another NFS share.

Which goes back to using NFS for largely read-only stuff.


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