Experience of centralized workflow with NFS-mounted storage?

[David Timothy Strauss]

I'd just like to understand why you wouldn't do one of the following:

(1) Run bzr as a smart server directly on the server storing the data, eliminating the NFS hop.

(2) Run the bzr client against the NFS server (as a dumb server) using an alternate means of access, like SFTP.

If possible, I'd prefer to answer the question "How do I achieve end goal X given environment Y?" rather than "How do I run Bazaar's X over NFS?" Treating the NFS server as a black box kind of limits our options.

David