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faster way to mount a remote file system than sshfs?
I have been using sshfs to work remotely, but it is really slow and annoying, particularly when I use eclipse on it.
Is there any faster way to mount the remote file system locally? My no.1 priority ...
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How do you declare a bind mount in NixOS?
I'm trying to declare a bind mount in my NixOS configuration. I'm trying the configuration snippet below, but it sends the OS into recovery mode when I test it out (using nixos-rebuild test). To be ...
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How can I have two files with the same name in a directory when mounted with NFS?
I have a C++ application test that creates 10,000 files in an NFS mounted directory, but my test recently failed once due to one file appearing twice with the same name in that directory with all the ...
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Which network file systems do not implement locking correctly?
As a common cause for file corruption, documentation often cites as cause "NFS that doesn't implement file-level locking correctly" or something similar, e.g., for SQLite:
How to corrupt an ...
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NFS: too many levels of symbolic links. How to find and fix?
wim@wim-desktop:/media/data/dots/manouche$ ls > /dev/null
ls: reading directory .: Too many levels of symbolic links
wim@wim-desktop:/media/data/dots/manouche$ find . -type l -exec ls -l {} \;
wim@...
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How to mount with 'strictatime'
I have tried this:
# mount -o strictatime someip:/fs/share /mnt/mymount
After that, when I run mount or cat /proc/mounts, it doesn't show the strictatime for the mount point. Why?
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From where comes the inode number of a file mounted through NFS?
I asked a question on codereview to know if I could safely replace the following code:
:inode => [stat.ino, stat.dev_major, stat.dev_minor],
which threw NotImplementedError because of jruby not ...
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NFS client (SFU in Windows 7) creates folders with 'x' bits set to false
I have a drive mounted on a Windows 7 64-bit machine from a VirtualBox Ubuntu VM via NFS. Whenever I try creating a folder from Windows, the folder is created with its executable bit set to false, ...
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Why NFS shows 100% but actual disk usage is some MB only
We have an issue with one of the NFS as its showing 94% usage as per df but actually some 10 BM only used.
# df -h |grep lv-new-1401
cbjserver:/f04780/lv-new-1401 10G 9.4G 650M 94% /var/lib/...
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What's the procedure of decompressing one large file in remote servers?
I've mounted a net drive into my local computer and there are several large compressed files (e.g., ~100Gb) stored in this net drive. If I decompress the file using WinRAR, it seems the decompressing ...
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Distributed File System using NFS?
Is it possible to setup NFS to perform as a parallel distributed file system? I'd like to have to NFS servers containing the same file data and serving file ops request for load balancing and to ...
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union-mount file system that actually deletes from all layers
Here's my use-case: I have roughly a dozen machines loosely clustered together, each with a few hundred GB partition that's currently not used. I would like to make a scratch partition so that users ...
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Choosing the right file system for Windows and macOS
I currently store my files (images, documents, ...) on a server at home and access them from my Windows PC via a network share with NFS. Since some time ago I also have a Mac. From my Mac I also can ...
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Can anybody give me an idea of when to use NFS and when to use iscsi as the file system?
What are the differences of these two types?
After searching on the Internet, I know NFS transfers files to the client, while iscsi transfers block to the client. With such information, I am still ...
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How to make AWS EFS work fast? (looks like a bug)
I am copying (by DataSync) from one EFS to another EFS (both Provisioned (1024 MiB/s)) at 14.57 MiB/s. Both systems are in the same subnet in the US. (Moreover, when I tried to change them back to ...
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