On 01/05/2014 02:27 AM, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Jan 4, 2014, at 6:12 PM, Marko Vojinovic vvmarko@gmail.com wrote:
But since we are bashing around about unnecessary default services, one set of services that I would actually like to see removed is the NFS stack (nfs, nfslock, portmap, ...). Arguably, a typical desktop OS with a GUI has absolutely no need of networked file systems, especially as obsolete as NFS. I've used Fedora for as long as it exists, and I've never seen anyone actually use NFS in real life scenarios on a typical desktop machine with a GUI. That's also got to be in the 99% of cases…
This only means your usage scenarios are very limited. Actually, all my Linux systems have been using nfs ever since Linux supports it and ever since I am running/administrating networks.
NFSv4.1 is a two year old spec? It's quite current.
Correct, nfs is far from being dead or obsolete.
It's just that home-users with a Win-history commonly are not familiar with it and that using it takes a bit of a learning curve. Once it's set up it's very convienient, fast, reliable and useful.
Getting rid of all the NFSv3 junk by default I think is valid.
This would mean to lock out many professional use-cases and restrict Fedora-deployment to amateurish use-cases.
Ralf