<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/14/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri</b> <<a href="mailto:barbieri@gmail.com">barbieri@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On 12/14/05, Brad Burleson <<a href="mailto:bradb667@gmail.com">bradb667@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> That's a great idea. Though in my (limited) experience, NFS and Samba don't
<br>> handle being disconnected and reconnected at will.<br><br>You can manually mount/umount, as you do in your desktop.<br><br>My idea is to help maemo platform in the package management area. This<br>is one idea: enable users to use MMC, SMB, NFS and others as media to
<br>store applications. The other is to enable users to beam their<br>applications to other users. Both are kind of connected.<br><br>I'll start a proposal of enhancement in wiki next week.</blockquote>
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<div>This is an excellent idea, but the "manually mount/umount" is where I see the real problem. It's not really practical to expect the user to remember to manually handle the mount/umount process. At least for me, I guess.
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<div>Plus, what happens when the wifi connect drops and comes back? I've seen all sorts of problems on *nix where recovering from temporary network outages doesn't work totally correctly (and you end up with hung/zombied processes, etc.).
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<div>But I'm looking forward to seeing how this goes.</div>
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<div>Brad.</div></div>