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On 04/30/2011 04:53 PM, Adam Carter wrote: |
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> I use nfs about twice/year to transfer large files between machines -- so |
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> I'm quite an expert at praying to the computer gods to "please let this nfs |
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> mount work just this one last time and I'll never bother you again, I promise!" |
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> I'm lying, of course, because I intend to do it again six months from now. |
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> Why not just use scp or sftp since its so infrequent? |
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I use scp all the time -- but It's The Principle Of The Thing(TM) :p |
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I never had any trouble with NFS until version 4 came along, and nothing *but* |
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trouble since then. |
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I figure if I invoke mount.nfs4, I shouldn't need to include the nfsvers=4 |
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option in addition -- but that's what it has made me do. |
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At least until the last time I tried it about two weeks ago, when plain old |
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mount -t nfs seemed to work without any magic incantations. OTOH, I didn't |
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bother to investigate which nfs version actually connected. I just gave thanks |
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for the crumbs it tossed me and copied my files across ;) |
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OTOH sftp really is quite nifty... |
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