[cad-linux-dev] Re: push vs pull network architecture
- From: Eric Wilhelm <ewilhelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: cad-linux-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 14:53:55 -0600
# The following was supposedly scribed by
# Bruno Postle
# on Monday 05 April 2004 07:34 am:
>NFS is robust and fast, it supports locking etc.. - So long as you
>restrict your data-channel requirements to filesystem semantics.
>
>FAM works with NFS (it listens on another port as you suggest) so
>you can have the server notify the client of changes without having
>to poll.
From my slight experience, NFS has some warts on it. In something intended to
be distributed across the internet, I think we would want better than
host-based security. It seems that I've read something about the new NFS
supporting better security models, but maybe you can correct me on that.
--Eric
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