[mdlug] sshfs mount

[Mat Enders]

On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Adam Tauno Williams
<awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-12-30 at 18:00 +0000, Mat Enders wrote:
>> Ok folks we 2 competing theories.  Let's have some more input. Who do
>> you think is right and why? Carl? Harry?
>
> No need for a vote.  Carl is correct.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: "Mat Enders" <mat.enders at gmail.com>
>> I am moving a large amount of data from one server to another.  Out of
>>  convenience I am doing an sshfs mount of both servers then using
>> Nautilus to drag and drop the data.  My question, is the data coming
>> to my laptop and back out or is it just moving from one server to the
>> other?  I would expect that it is going directly from one server to
>>  the other.
>
> I don't understand why you "would expect that".  You have established
> two connections, one from your laptop to server A and one from your
> laptop to server B.  If you move something via a local client
> [GVFS/Nautilus] the data will be acquired via connection A and sent via
> connection B.   Secure connections whether SCP or HTTPS are always
> between exactly two end-points.

I thought as my laptop was aware of the two connections on the same
network  that it would just act as the broker and move the data from
server A directly to server B.  But as has been pointed out by many
here that was a misguided assumption.

-- 
Mathew E. Enders

"Where once Samba and Apache sold Linux to the world they are now just
part of the plumbing.  But that's OK, plumbers make good money."
--Jeremy Allison