Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:00:08 +0100
From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
       Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [patch 2/4] Configure out file locking features
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Matt Mackall wrote:
> The typical embedded NFS-based devices are NAS servers and media players
> and are going to be more concerned about things like page cache
> balancing.

Oh, those.

It would be really annoying to buy a home NAS and find it doesn't
support NFS locks or SMB oplocks.  NASes are vaguely useful for more
than one computer in the house at the same time.

That said, I bought a big, expensive one, found it far too slow for my
needs, send it back for a refund and bought a portable cheap USB disk
which had *so* much higher performance.  The convenience of serving
multiple machines just wasn't worth the lousy performance.

-- Jamie
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