On Oct 29 07:22:22, James A. Peltier wrote:
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> | On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 06:05:28 -0700 (PDT)
> | "James A. Peltier" <jpeltier@sfu.ca> wrote:
> |
> | > No I cannot just put and get. Moving hundreds of gigabytes of
> | > medical imaging data around with FTP/SSH would be out of the
> | > question.
> |
> | Why?
> |
> | I imagine you know but FTP/SSH != sftp
>
> Yes I do. I was lumping FTP,SCP, SFTP into that group of choices.
>
> | Do you think ssh is too slow and unreliable?
>
> I don't think it's too slow, I know it for my purposes
>
> | Don't you have a duty to secure that medical data for many reasons,
> | obviously not jeopardising lives being paramount via reliability first
> | and speed, does nfs offer that.
>
> Yes, but the data is mostly scrubbed of personal info.
>
> | Seems all you need is interfaces for sftp?
>
> At face value it would seem that way, but you need to remember that each and every SFTP/SCP is a duplicate of the data.
>
> | >> and have their home directories be mounted on each of those
> | >> platforms.
> |
> | >>I am using Solaris, OS X, GNU/Linux and Windows mostly
> |
> |
> | If your trusting a windows gui!!! with this data then why are
> | others using the commandline put and get. Are your windows users using
> | dir and copy.
>
> No, the NFS share is re-exported out via Samba as a native CIFS mount to Windows machines. It's a simple copy paste for them
"re-exported" puzzles me; you export the data via NFS to those clients
who can speak NFS, and you export the same data via CIFS to those who
speak CIFS. Right?
