[Kolab-devel] KDE/Kontact unsuitable for NFS

[ITSEF Admin]

On Tuesday 5 June 2007 10:14, Martin Konold wrote:
> Am Montag 04 Juni 2007 schrieb ITSEF Admin:

[...]
> > different workstations, $HOME on NFS seemed to be quite standard to me as
> > setups go.
>
> Yes, and they regularily cause problems.

I can understand that there are problems, but from something like 
KDE/Kolab/Kontact that's also aiming at businesses I'd expect some 
workarounds, just to support existing infrastructure and thus keeping the 
entry hurdles low. Maybe even with some performance penalty, if no other way 
is possible. That's why I was so surprised by your statement in the first 
place.

[...]

> > these environments? What would you recommend instead of NFS for
> > environments where $HOME needs to be accessible on all workstations?
>
> e.g. AFS or GFS.

Thank you. I'll have to look into that, but it most definitely means more work 
- changing this setup for the complete network isn't peanuts, even for a 
small one like ours.

Does anybody out there happen to know which Linux distros support AFS or GFS 
out-of-the-box? OpenSUSE 10.[12] doesn't, for starters.

Also, if "KDE/Kontact is not suitable for NFS" is the official stance, I'd 
expect some big warning in the Kolab client documentation, again in the light 
of the existing setups.

Regards,

Thomas