Are you getting good enough performance for, say, large files, with SSHFS?

I put my home LAN on 1Gb ethernet to get reasonable performance when
openning 6MB+ RAW graphics files... and performance is clearly an issue.

Snapshots for backups... hum... any word on if/when Sun's ZFS could arrive
to a NetBSD server near us? :)

Gilles.


Michael Smith wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 12:04:11 -0400
> Louis Guillaume <lguillaume@berklee.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I'm getting ready to build a new filesystem that will be used to hold
>> media files: Music, Pictures, Movies etc.
>
> You know, that's exactly what my home server holds, as well as doing NAT,
> email, etc. I did it with a single 120G disk and a stock FFS2 file system.
> Nothing fancy and it works quite well.
>
> I used NFS here for a long time but now that our clients are laptops
> running ubuntu I use sshfs to link client and server. Authentication is a
> breeze for small scale stuff. An sshfs client is built into the Nautilus
> file manager.
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