Re: Linux On-Demand Network Access (LODNA)

2005-07-14 Thread Vlad C.
--- Hans Reiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You might look into SFS by David Mazieres, some > concepts in it are > likely to interest you. Thank you for your suggestion. I've taken a look at SFS (http://www.fs.net/sfswww/), and I like its emphasis on user-friendliness and security. It's a toss-up

Re: Linux On-Demand Network Access (LODNA)

2005-07-14 Thread Vlad C.
--- Peter Staubach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Vlad C. wrote: > > >--- Hans Reiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>Please treat at greater length how your proposal > >>differs from NFS. > >> > >> &

Re: Linux On-Demand Network Access (LODNA)

2005-07-12 Thread Vlad C.
--- Hans Reiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please treat at greater length how your proposal > differs from NFS. I think NFS is not flexible enough because: 1) NFS requires synchronization of passwd files or NIS/LDAP to authenticate users (which themselves require root access on both server and

Linux On-Demand Network Access (LODNA)

2005-07-12 Thread Vlad C.
Recent discussion on ReiserFS 4 has focused on the advantages and disadvantages of VFS at the kernel level versus the Desktop Environment (DE) level. I believe network locations should be administered by the kernel in a proposed framework called Linux On-Demand Network Access (LODNA), which would a