A new NFSv4 server...

[Jeff Garzik]

Peter Åstrand wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
>>> Ditto.  I think it'd be great to have a variety of client and server
>>> implementations available over the net, but I've had no luck talking
>>> anybody else into it.
>> I think blanket public access wouldn't be as effective as passworded access to
>> a cluster, much like how people get accounts on kernel.org (which is an
>> excellent model for shared-interest services).
>>
>> On the test cluster, I would want to be able to really stress my software,
>> which to any normal firewall or casual observer would look like a DoS attempt.
> 
> I'm not afraid of stress-tests that looks like DoS attempts. What worries 
> me is that a writable export will be used for sharing warez or something 
> like that. 

I would think that LAN testing would have more value than WAN testing 
anyway.  So just close off the firewall, except for ssh bastion host or 
similar.

	Jeff