Re: [Sugar-devel] sugar and nfs

2009-08-04 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
2009/8/4 Philippe Clérié : > OK! So I'm covered. :-) Simon is using Sugar with NFS in schools, so in case of trouble he (and others in this list) may be able to help. Regards, Tomeu > Thanks > > -- > > > Philippe > > -- > The trouble with common sense is that it is so uncommon. > > > On Tu

Re: [Sugar-devel] sugar and nfs

2009-08-04 Thread Philippe Clérié
OK! So I'm covered. :-) Thanks -- Philippe -- The trouble with common sense is that it is so uncommon. On Tuesday 04 August 2009 14:39:43 Luke Faraone wrote: > On Aug 4, 2009, at 12:04, Philippe Clérié wrote: > > My immediate concern is that the usb stick starts up with a > > default

Re: [Sugar-devel] sugar and nfs

2009-08-04 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 12:39:43PM -0700, Luke Faraone wrote: NFS should be trivial, this *is* POSIX after all. You could even use symlinks to a sshfs share with GmailFS running on a BSD server for all Sugar is concerned. Does sshfs support hardlinks (datastore uses hardlinks for space opti

Re: [Sugar-devel] sugar and nfs

2009-08-04 Thread Luke Faraone
On Aug 4, 2009, at 12:04, Philippe Clérié wrote: > My immediate concern is that the usb stick starts up with a default > user and there's no obvious way, from sugar, to change user names or > even hostnames. As it well shouldn't. Such tasks require system administrator privlages and are beyond

[Sugar-devel] sugar and nfs

2009-08-04 Thread Philippe Clérié
I've been so focused on just getting sugar on a hard disk that I've hardly taken the time to think of what comes next. In particular, the next hurdle will probably be getting it to work with the home directories on nfs. Has there been any experience with that? My immediate concern is that the u