[ale] Remote file systems and tunnels

[Erik Mathis]

Dont forget sshfs, its about as slow as using OpenVPN.

Also look into distributed file systems. Also of those already have SSL
built in.

-Erik-



On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net>wrote:

> I'm working on setting up a pair of systems that will need to have the
> storage volumes on one (file server) mounted by the other (application
> server).  The first problem is they're both going to be on different
> subnets (no choice).
>
> I'd like to have a secure link between the two.  I could set up NFS though
> that exposes the NFS server's ports to all machines (although I suppose I
> could also run iptables and allow only the app server through).  I was
> thinking it might be possible to tunnel NFS (or something similar and
> suitable) via SSH.  Then I only need the SSH port open on the server.
>
> The problem is that any document I find for tunneling NFS seems to be
> several years old.
>
> Thoughts?
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