On 9/14/07, Colin Walters <walters@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > a lot of this will also be alleviated once we get a proper location manager. I have a semi-working one right now based on an overlay fs on top of /etc. Each location is a different subversion branch and only changed files get stored in the overlay. It also exposes the location through dbus for a user-space app. It is a long way from reliable and finished but I am happy with the design so far. Jon -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
