On 04/30/2011 04:53 PM, Adam Carter wrote:

    I use nfs about twice/year to transfer large files between machines -- so
    I'm quite an expert at praying to the computer gods to "please let this nfs
    mount work just this one last time and I'll never bother you again, I 
promise!"

    I'm lying, of course, because I intend to do it again six months from now.


Why not just use scp or sftp since its so infrequent?

I use scp all the time -- but It's The Principle Of The Thing(TM) :p

I never had any trouble with NFS until version 4 came along, and nothing *but*
trouble since then.

I figure if I invoke mount.nfs4, I shouldn't need to include the nfsvers=4
option in addition -- but that's what it has made me do.

At least until the last time I tried it about two weeks ago, when plain old
mount -t nfs seemed to work without any magic incantations.  OTOH, I didn't
bother to investigate which nfs version actually connected.  I just gave thanks
for the crumbs it tossed me and copied my files across ;)

OTOH sftp really is quite nifty...


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