Subject: Re: NFS Under OS X (was Re: pre-asun2.1.4-39)
From: andrew morgan (morgan@orst.edu)
Date: Sun Jul 23 2000 - 22:30:37 EDT
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Harry Zink/Netatalk List wrote:
> It is the very argument that I have been, fruitlessly, making on this list
> before, particularly in regards to the alias issue. What the adherents to
> the "Don't use Alias'" mantra don't seem to understand is that NT/2000 will
> run on the same hardware that Linux will run, and while Linux is 'free', the
> cost of installing the MS product ($150, at most) is easily offset by the
> lesser amount of maintenance, feature-loss, and potential data loss.
>
> The point is that certain aspects of netatalk *NEED* to be addressed before
> it can be implemented in a real production environment (regardless of the
> arguments of thos making a living setting up netatalk boxes with
> limitations). These issues clearly are: alias support, data loss issue, and
> stability.
>
> Now, this is NOT to knock Adrian's work - he has done a TREMENDOUS job, and
> without him netatalk would just be a marginalized and obsolete protocol
> suite in eternal beta status. Furthermore, I fully understand that Cobalt is
> paying Adrian real money for real work (that might or might not be netatalk
> related), and thus Adrian's priorities lie with Cobalt - nothing wrong with
> that.
>
> Nevertheless, netatalk still needs some minor work to be done before I can
> feel safe deploying it safely in a real production environment.
I don't think anyone is disagreeing with you on this list. But there
doesn't seem to be anyone willing to tackle these issues. Adrian probably
knows the most about the netatalk code, but he seems to be occupied with
his paying job. If no one else can contribute code or help debugging
these problems in a serious way, then we should forget about netatalk ever
being fixed. Adrian has done great work, but this project cannot rest
solely on his shoulders.
I don't want to be an ass about this, but complaining about the problems
in netatalk will get us nowhere. I would be happy to host any patches or
re-packaged releases of netatalk if that means we can get some work done.
I already provide some patches to papd at
http://web.orst.edu/~morgan/netatalk/
and I hope to have more patches available soon.
There have been some discussions about a future home for netatalk at
SourceForge or Suse (UMich people, can you comment further on this?). I
could start the SourceForge site, but I'm not very familiar with their
services and I have no experience with CVS.
Andy
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