Alok Aggarwal wrote: > > On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Dave Miner wrote: > >>> SUNWnfsskr Network File System (NFS) server kernel support (Root) >>> SUNWnfssr Network File System (NFS) server support (Root) >>> SUNWnfssu Network File System (NFS) server support (Usr) >>> >>> NFS client support, definitely; NFS server in the live context, >>> I'd like to hear about some use cases. >>> >> >> I'll go along with that; I don't presently have a use case which demands >> NFS service. > > SUNWnfssu delivers (among other things) libshare that's used for sharing > file systems via NFS now and > via CIFS in the future. There could be a case where > CIFS interoperability with Microsoft might be a deal > breaker for a user in a Microsoft environment. >
Good info, Alok. > A use case for NFS server would be a user that starts > up a LiveCD for experimentation with ZFS. One of the > things that ZFS allows for is setting sharenfs=on on > ZFS filesystems. Without the NFS server present, trying > such a thing would just give an error message and > perhaps a not so great impression about ZFS. > Yeah, I noticed after I sent my reply that MC had made a somewhat similar point. As we're talking about 600K or so, I'm going to leave them in for now. The one thing that I've felt (and this discussion reinforces) is that we have a clear need to develop the general set of use cases we're expecting to support with the default live CD so that we have a basis for consistently evaluating its content as features are proposed. One more thing for the issues list. Dave
