Julian Reschke wrote:
Robert r. Sanders schrieb:
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.
Well. If programs act suboptimal when presented with a JCR server
mapped to a drive letter through WebDAV, why do you think they'll work
any better with a JCR server mapped to a drive letter through CIFS?
It's only a different transport, but I don't think the main issues (*)
will go away.
Best regards, Julian
(*) such as: lots of temp files, no use of locking, creating new files
and moving them over instead of overwriting existing ones, causing
loss of metadata
First off as I said the server was actually not running a JCR
implementation - it was running subversion (OS X was reported to work
pretty well by one user who tried it with his notebook). Secondly, my
goal would be to "tune" the JCR server configuration to better handle
the specific use cases (although this is of course speculative, but I
think at least somewhat possible). Third, I suspect the big issue is
that, as many people have found, the MS implementation of WebDAV
"drives' is pretty idiosyncratic, so although I have to admit I have not
had a chance to test it, I would suspect something which exposed a CIFS
interface would at least be easier to setup if nothing else. Of course
this is mostly speculative, but it meshes with my experience.
