killing NFS mode? objections?

[Eric Hodel]

On Sep 29, 2006, at 11:22 AM, Brad Fitzpatrick wrote:

> Would anybody care if I removed the all-storage-nodes-locally- 
> mounted-everywhere
> code from Mogile?  (both server and clients)

I would, I use NFS mode on FreeBSD.

> In the meantime, I think NFS support might've rotted, but I hear  
> maybe it
> still works?

It seems to be working alright.

> In any case, it'd clean up the code to remove it, and remove support
> costs.  ("you did what?  no, no, don't use /that/ ...")
>
> If it's still desired from the client-side, I can see a client-side
> transform/check being done... given a URL, see if has a local NFS  
> mount,
> and use that instead.  But that's unrelated to removing it from the
> server.  The server would then only replicate using HTTP, which is  
> a lot
> better anyway, since we can tell which side failed, since we're  
> involved
> in the copy, whereas NFS mounts just kinda hang and are useless.

If there's a better way to implement it I can play with it on our  
test servers, but my time may be limited for the rest of October.

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