I think this would be a good idea too, as a matter of fact we already
looked into the feasibility of something like that and it seems to work
just fine. Some random access performance drawbacks if we want
to keep it strictly bound to the JCR API.
jCIFS though is a CIFS client, right? At least I have not found a CIFS
server other than Starlasoft's / Alfresco's?
Am I looking in the wrong place?
Duh, I believe I had the two mixed up. I don't know why; overly
optimistic thinking I guess.
Having tried mapping a WeDAV
location as a network drive I can say that it really doesn't work in a
usable fashion.
Really? So far I experienced a generally suboptimal perfomance
but it works just as well as CIFS for me, both on MacOSX and Windows.
What issues did you encounter?
We tried Win2k client machines connecting to a Subversion server set to
auto-version. Opening a "web folder" worked ok; but trying to map that
to a drive letter seemed to result in all sorts of issues, one of which
I believe was an infinite loop in the login prompt. Its been over a
year, so the details have gotten kind of fuzzy. Anyway, we were trying
to use non-WebDAV aware programs (e.g. Flash, Wave file editors, etc...)
and this also seemed to often result in zero-byte files being stored on
the server. Maybe a different combination on the server-side would have
fixed the issue, I can't say.
regards,
david
