Experience of centralized workflow with NFS-mounted storage?

[Ben Finney]

David Timothy Strauss <david at fourkitchens.com> writes:

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

Assuming that “you” refers to anyone using Bazaar with storage
provided via NFS:

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

The NFS server might not be under your control.

The NFS server might not be capable of running arbitrary software.

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

There may be no other means of access to the same storage.

> 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.

Often that's the entire point of providing NFS access to the home
directory: so that all access to it is via a known access method, and
both storage management and network management become simpler as a
result.

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Ben Finney