[cad-linux-dev] Re: push vs pull network architecture
- From: Bruno Postle <bruno@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: CAD linux development <cad-linux-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 22:53:41 +0100
On Mon 05-Apr-2004 at 02:53:55PM -0600, Eric Wilhelm wrote:
[snip, idea of NFS/FAM for client/server CAD data access]
> From my slight experience, NFS has some warts on it.
Lots.
> In something intended to be distributed across the internet, I
> think we would want better than host-based security.
Yeah, NFS/FAM needs to be tunneled through untrusted networks.
The point I was trying to make is that this kind of remote real-time
multi-client data-access might be cool in a demonstration [*] or in a
game like Quake..
..but a more formal CVS-like system of "check-out -> work-offline ->
check-in" is the way I _really_ want to be working with design data.
[*] I demoed 'Draft' the other day by opening a single drawing on
three different workstations. This 'fridge' drawing has a bunch
of letters of the alphabet that can be dragged around to form
words - It's fun, but it's no basis for collaborative working.
<http://bugbear.blackfish.org.uk/~bruno/draft/>
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Bruno
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