On Jul 26, 2010, at 07:25, Carsten Munk wrote: > 2010/7/23 Auke Kok <[email protected]>: >> On 07/23/10 14:23, [email protected] wrote: >>> >>> Do we have the nfs-utils and nfs-utils-lib package for MeeGo 1.0 somewhere >>> in the repo? Can you please point me to it? >>> I tried installing a public rpm but that is not sufficient to configure >>> the nfs server on MeeGo. >> >> neither, MeeGo doesn't support NFS, nor do we have the needed kernel options >> enabled or tools packaged. > > There is one quite legit use for NFS, which is general handset > development. Traditionally many porters use NFS as boot medium for > their boards to not constantly rewrite NAND or SD cards with system > images on them, effectively speeding up their development cycles. > > For non-netbook configurations like handsets or development boards, > modules may be considered useful to have enabled. Chances are though > that board porters will just enable NFS in their kernel > configurations. > > This doesn't mean the utils have to be there, at least in N900, we use > busybox to fullfill that within a boot initrd.
There are always going to be use cases for NFS, especially from developers or sysadmins who are more familiar with NFS than something else. But I think as far as the current discussion goes, Arjan is making sense. sshfs can pretty much replace NFS plus it gives you encryption for free! It has somewhat less complexity that NFS, and has somewhat fewer dependencies. I use it to develop on my N900 and don't miss NFS at all. I'm not fully convinced there is a need to maintain NFS in MeeGo and I think everyone would prefer less complexity so perhaps we can define an end user use case which clearly demonstrates the need for NFS that sshfs doesn't fill? Jeremiah _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
