On 17/02/2021 21:13, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Feb 2021 20:58:39 +0000
> The Natural Philosopher  wrote:
>
>> On 17/02/2021 12:39, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
>>> On Wed, 17 Feb 2021 11:54:57 +0000
>>>  Apart from anything else sshfs doesn't require admin access to
>>> the server. IME though the latency in a remote FS mount either by NFS
>>> over VPN or sshfs over anything can be painful compared to using the
>>> command line and tmux over an ssh connection to a box or VM that's in
>>> the data centre where everything else is.
>>>
>> Well that again depends on your network speed. I now have a minimum
>> speed of 10Mbps up and that's as good as the coaxial ethernet NFS was
>> designed for
>
>  Latency is more of a factor than speed, I have 1Gbps down, 100Mbps
> up, but if the other end is on another continent then the latency tends to
> make things painful.
>
Mmm. Latency is usually more an issue of link speed than of actual time
delay.

I get 11-20ms for a 64byte PING  to pretty much any decent core server
in the USA from here in the UK - 11ms - that's my uplink delay

Its hard to tell what more remote countries are like because everyone
tends to shove their hosting service in the USA.

NFS suffers under latency a bit, but protocols like sshfs should not -
they use large packet sizes


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