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Hey people: it’s occurring to me that might not actually be the best way to do what I’m doing. So: if you had two Debian servers on a vpn, both with 1 gig fiber links to the internet, in cities 100 km apart, how would you go about having shared filesystems between them? Right now I am using rclone mount with sftp. Is there a less janky way?
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modulux @modulux@node.isonomia.net
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@fastfinge I haven't actually set this up before, but NFS seems like the way to go around this (network filesystem).
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@modulux The thing that scares me about nfs is that it’s an ancient protocol, and authentication and encryption feel like a bolted on mess. Especially because I haven’t set up Pam or whatever to share accounts between the systems. So I’m confused about what happens when nfs tries to sync permissions.
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@fastfinge It's ancient, but there's been relatively newer versions. That said I'm only talking from second-hand knowledge since I never needed to set this up. Another option you might consider is sshfs.
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@modulux I think sshfs is what rclone uses underneath?
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