Re: [ILUG] NFS over ssh?

From: Nick Moffitt (nick at domain zork.net)
Date: Wed 06 Jun 2001 - 18:39:57 IST


begin Rick Moen Lives Three Hours from Nowhere quotation:
> begin John P. Looney quotation:
> > NFSv3 can run over tcp/ip - you would have to force it. You will
> > also have to get it tunnelling mountd too. I don't think you can
> > specifiy an alternate port for lockd though.
>
> You'd also have to run "Secure Portmapper". And then, redirecting
> TCP-style NFSv3 over SSH is alleged to be tricky and possibly never
> actually yet done -- but I'd bet that it would also be dog slow.

        NFSv4 uses a single TCP connection, and can be easily
tunneled. Of course, it'll be finished RSN, but it should solve a
number of the problems that plague NFS.

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