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    SubjectRe: Linux On-Demand Network Access (LODNA)
    Peter Staubach wrote:

    > Hans Reiser wrote:
    >
    >> Peter, do you agree with his point that mounting should be something
    >> ordinary users can do on mountpoints they have write permission for?
    >>
    >> Do you agree that a systematic review of user friendliness would help
    >> NFS? Do you think that NFS should look at SFS and consider adopting
    >> some of its features?
    >>
    >
    > I think that connecting to required data could be more easily done than
    > currently. I don't know about allowing file systems to be mounted without
    > some form of control or resource utilization controls however.
    >
    > I do agree that the entire user experience associated with using and
    > trying
    > to administrate an NFS network could stand a good, long, hard look.
    >
    > Traditional tools such as the automounter were nice 15 years ago, but
    > have
    > not evolved with the world, nor have the rest of the system tools for
    > monitoring and managing NFS clients and servers.
    >
    > I could definitely envision better ways to handle things. In the past,
    > many of the arguments against making things better were security related.
    > There has been strong (relative term) security available to NFS
    > implementations
    > since 1997, but many vendors have not implemented it and many
    > customers found
    > it difficult to deploy because the underlying tools were very
    > difficult to
    > deploy. Many of the vendors are now implementing the security
    > framework, but
    > more work is required on the underlying security mechanisms, making them
    > easier to deploy.
    >
    > With proper security, usable monitoring and management tools, and
    > flexible
    > resource controls, then I wouldn't see why NFS mounts should be anything
    > special.
    >
    > Thanx...
    >
    > ps
    >
    >
    I would encourage you to look at SFS..... it fixes a lot, making adding
    what Vlad asks for reasonable.
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