I recognize a Samba mount on the Linux ESB server might work in the small, but I was hoping for a little more featured.

For example, having 10 different file systems to monitor would mean 10 mount locations, which for me personally would be a red flag if I was sysadmin on the server.  Which brings up the role-separation concern about if/when the server administrators should be aware of/involved in those ESB oriented tasks.

Otherwise, setting up failover scenarios require additional setup for more mount locations, versus I would hope a more portable solution.  The ServiceMix guys/gals apparently are using VFS (jcifs under the covers obviously) for this approach. For small number of systems where high performance is a mandate, I think the Samba approach would be best...but is much less portable as well as greater setup time/more ppl involved for scenarios where trying-to-get-a-handle-on-a-lot-of-stuff-where-less-performance-is-ok problems.

I'm putting together a small list of event-driven transports (the trigger/starts) across the different open source ESB's, per the past couple of questions. I can share directly or on the forum if desired, or if someone else has already done this work please share :-).

-D