High-DPI displays and Linux

Posted Nov 13, 2014 14:22 UTC (Thu) by giggls (subscriber, #48434)
In reply to: High-DPI displays and Linux by roskegg
Parent article: High-DPI displays and Linux

Whats your Problem with NFS?

NFS4 is a decent remote filesystem, not "No File Security" anymore.

The only thing I would like to have in Linux Implementation would be a Shared Key Setup for environments with a couple of hosts, where a full-fedged Kerberos setup would be overkill.

Sven

High-DPI displays and Linux

Posted Nov 13, 2014 22:21 UTC (Thu) by roskegg (subscriber, #105) [Link] (2 responses)

9P2000 supersedes NFS.

High-DPI displays and Linux

Posted Nov 14, 2014 9:11 UTC (Fri) by giggls (subscriber, #48434) [Link] (1 responses)

Up till now, I have been using 9p for sharing drives on kvm hosts only.

Will 9p provide a decent solution for centralized home directories without the security nightmare of NFS3?

High-DPI displays and Linux

Posted Nov 15, 2014 16:25 UTC (Sat) by lsl (subscriber, #86508) [Link]

It could. I don't think the Linux kernel implementation of 9P (v9fs) really supports it, though.

On can certainly build nice things on top of 9P auth. See this paper on what is done on Plan 9:
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/auth.pdf

Think kerberized Unix services, but a thousand times simpler and actually unified on the system level.