When it comes to sharing files across different machines, there are two protocols that most home labbers and tinkerers consider first: NFS and SMB. Both get the job done, but they serve different ...

We have been having an internal debate, not really so much a heated fists to face kind of debate, but more discussions, around the merits or performance impacts of running mySQL databases across NFS.

Network File System (NFS) configuration information is quite possibly the digital equivalent of a tribble (that’s as in Star Trek, not the Sun Vice President who is distinctly analog). Client ...