remote directory/partition

[Jonathan Ben Avraham]

Hi Hetz,
Unless one side of the pond is read-only there will be problems with any 
solution due to the latency.
I suggest that you create a local copy of the data and use inotify-tools 
to trigger rsync. See example on
https://github.com/rvoicilas/inotify-tools/wiki/
Shavua tov,

  - yba



On Sat, 22 Oct 2011, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:

> Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 23:03:49 +0200
> From: Hetz Ben Hamo <hetzbh at gmail.com>
> To: ILUG <linux-il at cs.huji.ac.il>
> Subject: remote directory/partition
> 
> Hi,
> Here is a theoretical question:
> 
> Lets say I have a Linux server in Israel, and I have a block of storage (lets say iSCSI partition for this
> example) in USA, and I want to mount it on my server in Israel.
> iSCSI over such a long distance and with big latency (thanks to our ISP's) is a big no no, it's too slow.
> NFS is also not a good idea (here's why).
> 
> I can take this storage, format it and export it from my server in USA, but which protocol would give me:
>  1. All (or almost all) functionality of a local mounted device
>  2. Can work with long distance latencies
>  3. won't "kill" the machine if the remote directory is disconnected / "disappeared"
>  4. If possible - supported (either directly or using 3rd party driver) on Windows 2008 (Linux is the main
>     concern, Windows is optional)
> i'm not looking for FTP solution (I checked curlftpfs, which is FTP implemented using FUSE. it's nice but
> when it disconnects, the machine will have issues), and webdav (slow)
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks,
> Hetz
> 
>

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