[aklug] Re: secure over-network filesystem

On Tuesday 04 August 2009, barsalou said something like:
> Quoting "Joshua J. Kugler" <joshua@eeinternet.com>:
> > Anyone have a suggestion for mounting a part of a file system
> > securely over the network? iSCSI over SSH won't work (don't want
> > to mount the device). SSHFS has shown itself to be unreliable
> > (won't reconnect even when given the command line parameter to do
> > so). Any other ideas?
> >
> > And yes I've googled...I've found the previously mentioned options.
>
> Use an ssh tunnel and mount via NFS?
>
> Your saying you don't want to mount the device....just the part of
> the filesystem, right?

I was reading up on that. A little more overhead than I wanted, but
maybe more reliable than SSHFS. Although a cron job checking on SSHFS
keeps it fairly reliable.

Thanks for the tip.

j

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