About remove nfs filesharing support

[David Faure]

On Tuesday 28 December 2010, Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 December 2010, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 01:18:10PM -0200, Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote:
> > > Does that mean making KDE completely oblivious to NFS at all?
> > 
> > No, NFS is almost always system mounted.  I've never come across
> > anyone actually using it for user mounts.  Far better to work on
> > support for protocols that are designed for the job and standardied
> > like SMB (designed for the job, Rodrigo already implemented), and
> > Webdav (standardised, could be intergrated with OwnCloud).
> 
> I use it like that. NFS integrates much better than SMB with unix
> filesystems, and auto-mounting is not always possible with a laptop that
> can be moved between different local networks.

Note that the nfs://host ioslave will still be working (*), in addition to 
system mounts. The only thing discussed here is the suid script (and related 
GUI) that allows users to make nfs shares.

(*) so even if "almost always system mounted" is not so true, we still have a 
client solution that doesn't require mounting. Which I like very much because 
it doesn't make your machine hang when the server is shut down and you forgot 
to umount the share... (But then again, sftp:// is easier to setup and more 
secure).

Anyway, I don't know if user-controlled sharing should be kept or removed.
It would be interesting to have Mandriva's feedback, since the feature was 
coded by Mandriva developers, years ago.

-- 
David Faure, faure at kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr
Sponsored by Nokia to work on KDE, incl. Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org).