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minus-squareqjkxbmwvz@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 days agoFor some (most?) of us, we don’t have ssh access open to the world, so everything is over a VPN. So I can just use NFS over WireGuard which afaik is fairly secure, if you trust your endpoints, and works great over the Internet.
minus-squarecmnybo@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 days agoI’ve never had good luck with NFS on a high latency connection. SSHFS still works fine even if the server is on the other side of the planet.
minus-squaredan@upvote.aulinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 days agoNFS should work well enough on high latency connections - it was designed back when it was fairly uncommon to connect to a server over dial-up. It’s definitely possible that SFTP is more optimized than NFS though.
For some (most?) of us, we don’t have ssh access open to the world, so everything is over a VPN. So I can just use NFS over WireGuard which afaik is fairly secure, if you trust your endpoints, and works great over the Internet.
I’ve never had good luck with NFS on a high latency connection. SSHFS still works fine even if the server is on the other side of the planet.
NFS should work well enough on high latency connections - it was designed back when it was fairly uncommon to connect to a server over dial-up.
It’s definitely possible that SFTP is more optimized than NFS though.