[MeeGo-dev] nfs package in meego ?

[Arjan van de Ven]

On 7/24/2010 12:54 PM, David Greaves wrote:
> On 24/07/10 18:30, Martin Grimme wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> 2010/7/24, Arjan van de Ven<arjan at linux.intel.com>:
>>> NFS is both a pain, and outside our use model (NFS over wifi or 3g does
>>> not work well at all..
>>
>> I have to disagree! I am using NFS reliably over WiFi at home and it 
>> works fine.
>> Not having NFS by default on MeeGo is one thing, but not allowing one
>> to have NFS on MeeGo without recompiling the kernel and the nfs-utils
>> is very annoying.
>> And basing this decision on false assumptions (NFS over WiFi does
>> work) is really disappointing.
>>
>> If sshfs were more reliable I wouldn't run NFS over WiFi, would I?
>
> Seems to me that the kernel should have nfs enabled as a module and 
> any vendor shipping a device would, of course, select initrd modules 
> as required.
>
> I see the point that MeeGo cannot afford to support and QA test the 
> nfs-utils package - it simply isn't relevant to the vast majority of 
> target devices.
>
NFS is more than one package (if you want to work reliable); you end up 
with the lockd stuff, the portmap stuff (which may spread to other 
packages due to portmap
not being very friendly with IP ports etc etc)....

if someone really really gets it to work well in the community OBS I'm 
open to deal with the kernel config issue; that's the least of the worries.
But what I don't want is that we complicate the already complex bootflow 
of the "non NFS" OS at all...