Vlad C. wrote:
--- Hans Reiser <[email protected]> wrote:
Please treat at greater length how your proposal
differs from NFS.
I think NFS is not flexible enough because:
1) NFS requires synchronization of passwd files or
NIS/LDAP to authenticate users (which themselves
require root access on both server and client to
install)
2) NFS by definition understands only its own network
protocol.
3) NFS requires root privileges on the client to
mount. I'm not aware of a way to let normal users
mount an NFS partition other than listing it in the
client's fstab and adding the 'users' option... but
then changing fstab still requires root access.
4) Users have to contact their sysadmin every time
they want to mount a different partition, a different
subdirectory of the same partition, or if they want to
change the local mountpoint, all because the partition
and mountpoint are hard-coded in fstab.
On the other hand, I envision the following:
Please keep in mind that these are restrictions of the current NFS
implementation and are not inherent in an NFS solution.
The implied need for flexibility is being addressed by NFSv4 and the
ability to understand multiple versions of protocols and multiple
protocols is already resident in the system. We could do some work
to make it more transparent if desired, but it already works.
Thanx...
ps
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