On 9/13/07, Jon Nettleton <jon.nettleton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > That might work for a single user, but what about a family of users > that want to share photos? If anything I would suggest a webdav > enabled svn repo than rsync+cron. Drag and drop data, instant > revision control. With some ldap and apache magic you can get user > privileges refined as well. > Right - which gets to my point which is that in very few situations do you actually want a remote filesystem. For backing up photos, you actually don't want to support permanent delete for example, or at least it should be very hard to do. Your svn repository would be like that. But to go back to why I think autofs/iscsi and other kernel-mounted filesystems are a bad idea for the desktop is because you need to design for the laptop case, and my experience with all kernel-mounted filesystems and laptops has been uninterruptible processes hung on IO after you disconnect from the network. By putting things in user space you avoid this insanity, and it's a heck of a lot simpler. I'm sure there are situations in which kernel-mounted NFS is appropriate, but it's one of those technologies I go out of my way to avoid because there is almost always a better way. -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
