On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 09:51:15AM +0100, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > Any suggestions for an alternative to NFS if your 'client' servers > are located "all over the world" and you want to installworld across > the Internet? I was planning to use NFS/TCP secured by IPSec transport > mode, but anything less complicated would be greatly appreciated ;-) > > Anyone using ggated/ggatec for that purpose? I think that would not work unless you had a second FreeBSD installation on the remote machine and rebooted into that while you were upgrading the first. That's because you can't safely modify a block filesystem while it's mounted by someone else (even read-only). You could try tunneling NFS/TCP through ssh port forwarding. Never tried it myself, and there may be some gotchas. Linux has an extremely neat solution for this (sshfs) but I don't know of anything comparable in the BSD world. sshfs uses 'Fuse', a plug-in architecture which allows filesystems to run in userland. I believe it makes an sftp connection to the remote host, and then exposes it as if it were a real filesystem. Regards, Brian.Received on Sat Dec 24 2005 - 14:32:27 UTC
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