Re:Sshfs Is Orphaned
by rollcat on Monday June 20, 2022 @03:06PM
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> As far as packet loss is concerned, TCP is more robust
Somehow I always felt using UDP as a basis for a file access protocol had more potential. You shouldn't care about packets arriving in the correct order, only that the (likely, concurrent) read/write operations are completed. If I request a 1MB read, I don't need it to come in 1500b sequential chunks, I can wait for the read call to return me a full 1MB buffer.
It could also enable better throughput on high-latency (but otherwise speedy) links, like moving files between datacenters across the pond.
Re:Sshfs Is Orphaned
by boulos on Monday June 20, 2022 @04:57PM
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Sun RPC / XDR doesn't have consistency checking like that built in. So you definitely can't bolt this onto older NFS protocols, but they could have for NFS v4 (and didn't).
Somehow I always felt using UDP as a basis for a file access protocol had more potential. You shouldn't care about packets arriving in the correct order, only that the (likely, concurrent) read/write operations are completed. If I request a 1MB read, I don't need it to come in 1500b sequential chunks, I can wait for the read call to return me a full 1MB buffer.
It could also enable better throughput on high-latency (but otherwise speedy) links, like moving files between datacenters across the pond.