NFS and file sharing

[MighMos]

I was thinking about networking my home drives on the network, and it dawned upon me that I could be taking up excessive amounts of bandwidth because I occasionally file share. Would the data be sent through the gateway, to me, then over to my host computer? Or is it smart enough to go directly from gateway to host?

[chris78]

If i understand your question right than you mean that you have a gateway
which serves an NFS mountpoint and when you fileshare, it is mounted by your desktop
and the data that comes in goes to you desktop machine first.
Then thats true. It will eat up the double bandwidth.
Once to the machine and back to the gateway.

[chris78]

Anyway NFS is not capable to detect loops in a copy accross the network.
If you mounted a drive from one machine and re-export it from there
and mount it from there again X times the data will get sent X times over the network.

I had that at home with a much simpler case.
I mounted a drive via NFS and copied files inside the mountpoint.
The same problem.
It gets sent to me and i will change the path a little and send it back.

[MighMos]

Ok, thankyou. I think I will do it anyway, but now I know :D