[Qgis-user] [EXTERNAL] Re: Geopackage slow on NAS if not read-only

[Patrick Dunford]

Thanks for this.

You've helped convince me I need to keep a big cabinet with a row of 
"huge" tower chassises in it to store all my map data instead of forking 
out to get one of those wee little NASs and save a bit of space :)

using Linux on my computer and NFS for networking when I need to open 
files on a different computer because the usual one is having some sort 
of problem.

lol

On 17/03/23 03:39, jhubbslist--- via QGIS-User wrote:
> You'd only be "living with it" because you choose to use the wrong 
> tools for the work and refuse to use the right ones. In this case, I 
> see the "wrong tools" here as 1) network-shared files for common r/w 
> access 2) the SMB/CIFS protocol in general 3) appliance-type file 
> servers are trash. You can try to make things better by standing up a 
> proper Linux-based file server and using NFS instead of SMB/CIFS but 
> 1) is enough of a problem that you'd only be throwing good work after 
> bad.
>
> If it suits your use cases, you might try implementing something like 
> git - which is after a fashion just another networked file-sharing 
> protocol - and use check-out/check-in controls to make changes to 
> centrally-stored files but this means you'll be slinging entire copies 
> of your datasets down to client machines on the regular; that may not 
> work well for you.
>
> The best answer is PostgreSQL/PostGIS and that's going to take some 
> time and effort. Cost of doing business.
>
>