Someone recommend a decent networked filesystem PLEASE.

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Here's my basic setup:

• Office LAN connected to the net with a cable modem.
  
• Laptop connected from random points on the net over an OpenVPN network to the office.
  
• Several different filesystems I need to mount on the laptop and the LAN.
  

NFS works, but it's slower than shit from a constipated monkey on a cold Antarctic evening. There are also a few phantom errors that arise both randomly and, far more predictably, when there's a lot of file accesses on a filesystem. I basically want to dump it.

All I really want is a networked filesystem that does a decent job with synching stuff offline, as in the case of the laptop. There should be no major consistency problems since there should never be file modifications that happen between laptop mounts. I'm the only person who touches the files. I also want it to be reasonably efficient. NFS seems to have some kind of really disgusting overhead that I just can't tolerate.

I looked at Coda, but the support is nonexistant, the documentation absolutely horrible, and I couldn't get it to work anyway.

So anyway, from people with experience in these things, is there a production quality filesystem out there that, well, actually WORKS? AFS? GFS? What? And where do I get it and a HOWTO?
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[phdfreddied]

You don't like NFS?
Try using SMB, which can be properly mounted as an FS on the guest machine, and XFS as your core FS. SMB works well, quite quickly and doesn't fsck around. XFS is fast and useful, but sucks as far as recovery, but it's fast as hell (Reiserv4 has journaling but is a bit slower). Don't bother with that obscure crap, KISS for once.

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