Hello everybody,

I struggled a little bit to put this in the right forum, so if I chose poorly, I apologize in advance. I chose security, simply because that is the major concern for my question(s). The major portion of my network is Linux (Debian Sarge, and DSL). I have one XP Pro box. Everything sits behind my Smoothwall Express 2.0 firewall.

To try and follow KISS theory, One box has disk space, the other power. The disk space is on an i386 platform the powerhouse is on HPPA.

This is what I propose... Is it sound, to export the data volume on i386 to nfs and mount it on the HPPA? I want the HPPA to run LAMP, torrents, and PXE boot images but keep most of the data on the NFS volume. HPPA has a single 36GB U160 SCA drive and the i386 has a RAID 0 configuration of IDE drives totaling 520GB. RAID 0 because the drives are not the same size, but I want the total space available as one volume.

What do you think, safe or stupid?

It's rarely a question of safe or stupid, it's a question of looking at your other options and at your risks. There aren't many of either. NFS on a local network should be fine in terms of security, and there are very few other options anyways. If you're really concerned about security, you might try putting nfs through an ssh tunnel: http://www.samag.com/documents/s=407...d/sam0203d.htm

Thanks Stefan,

So my logic is not flawed, I'm glad to hear that. I will definitely look into that nfs over ssh article. Thanks for your input, and if you have any other suggestions I would be happy to hear them.

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