What better for mounting local network storage on Linux? Samba, WebDAV or rclone using SFTP?

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>rclone using SFTP
sshfs exists lol. probably smb is your best bet yeah
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@opal Cool, wasn't aware of that. I'm of the opinion too.

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@matrix it's either that or nfs, and nfs is really fucking jank
@matrix you can use kerberos with nfs, but again nfs is a dumpster fire in its own right

@sjw @opal 3.0 does. The storage boxes can be accessed from outside.

@matrix @matrix nfs is just the raw filesystem. route it over wireguard if you want encryption

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@opal @matrix for me NFS has been working great with FreeNAS/TrueNAS, however two aspects of it is that sever has to have decent network adapter and you must not share same directories with anything else, really. Real jank comes with the "one share per device" restriction of NFS which is easily circumvented with ZFS's nested datasets in my case.

My previous experience (JBOD on Linux) was less than stellar, but at least network wasn't a problem.
@hj @matrix in my case i built kernel and userland for nfs on my homeserver, built it on my desktop, and for the life of me couldnt debug why they wouldnt communicate even with the logs. some bug i forget about now, maybe it's all been fixed upstream by now, but i've been lazy to try
@opal @matrix for me the only problem before was the "stale descriptor" or something, i couldn't access file and needed to restart the server, most likely caused by me fucking around with bind mounts to circumvent NFS's limitations and/or sharing same files between different protocols.

my only current problem is that FreeBSD's network drivers are shite, and i have to use usb3 ethernet adapter which uses different (non-realtek) chip and works much much better, but still has same issue just rarer where whole thing just drops out of the network, and the NIC driver just fukcing dies requiring (you guessed it) a reboot.
@matrix @hj @opal @matrix JBOD on Linux is a lot better now that ZoL is a thing.

TrueNAS is actually switching to Debian for their TrueNAS Scale line which actually seems to be pretty interesting.

It's GlusterFS on top of ZFS and will automatically manage Kubernetes and KVM.

It's kind of a single solution for high availability storage clusters + compute clusters + user management/authentication.

It's actually pretty interesting and I'd like to play around with it.

Kind of the ideal setup for a home lab IMO.

It's still in Alpha tho so I probably wouldn't want to use it in production.
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