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Is there a way to keep two directories (on two servers) in sync with each other, truly?

I have two servers in AWS that we are using to store a software packages codebase that is accessed by the web application/server. /var/www/vhosts/application-dua/content/ This same folder structure ...
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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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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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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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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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Is there a race condition when two computers have the same remote directory mounted over NFS

I am seeing some very strange results in a filesystem where I have one machine that creates a directory in a mounted NFS filesystem, does some work it in, then makes a remote call to another machine ...
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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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