[caiman-discuss] Updated Slim Install CD package list posted

[Alok Aggarwal]

On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Dave Miner wrote:

>> SUNWnfsskr    Network File System (NFS) server kernel support (Root)
>> SUNWnfssr    Network File System (NFS) server support (Root)
>> SUNWnfssu    Network File System (NFS) server support (Usr)
>>
>>     NFS client support, definitely; NFS server in the live context,
>>     I'd like to hear about some use cases.
>>
>
> I'll go along with that; I don't presently have a use case which demands
> NFS service.

SUNWnfssu delivers (among other things) libshare 
that's used for sharing file systems via NFS now and
via CIFS in the future. There could be a case where
CIFS interoperability with Microsoft might be a deal
breaker for a user in a Microsoft environment.

A use case for NFS server would be a user that starts
up a LiveCD for experimentation with ZFS. One of the
things that ZFS allows for is setting sharenfs=on on
ZFS filesystems. Without the NFS server present, trying
such a thing would just give an error message and
perhaps a not so great impression about ZFS.

Alok