[Engine-devel] Advanced Nfs Options + NFSv4 GUI mockup

Einav Cohen ecohen at redhat.com
Tue Jun 12 05:09:07 UTC 2012


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Keith Robertson" <kroberts at redhat.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 5, 2012 4:06:45 PM
> 
> On 06/05/2012 08:03 AM, Ayal Baron wrote:
> >> -------- Original Message --------
> >> Subject: [Engine-devel] Advanced Nfs Options + NFSv4 GUI mockup
> >> Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 06:34:32 -0400 (EDT)
> >> From: Einav Cohen<ecohen at redhat.com>
> >> To: Ayal Baron<abaron at redhat.com>, Eldan Hildesheim
> >> <ehildesh at redhat.com>,        Eldan Hildesheim<info at eldanet.com>,
> >>     Miki Kenneth<mkenneth at redhat.com>,        Andrew Cathrow
> >> <acathrow at redhat.com>,        Simon Grinberg<sgrinber at redhat.com>,
> >> Alexey Chub<achub at redhat.com>
> >> CC: engine-devel at ovirt.org
> >>
> >> Please review the mock-up on the feature page:
> >> http://www.ovirt.org/wiki/Features/AdvancedNfsOptions#User_Experience
> > Sorry, I just saw this.
> > The advanced features should be in an advanced tab (not easily
> > accessible) in general I'd like to discourage users from changing
> > these params.
> I agree with this.  Have an "Advanced Options" button or something
> that
> will display these options.  Default state should be hidden.  It
> could
> get really ugly if the user starts mucking around with options like
> (r,
> hard, and sync).
> 
> The reason I say this is that the default settings for NFS should be
> sufficient in the majority of cases.  Further, you would think that
> the
> NFS maintainers carefully selected and tested the default option set
> for
> a variety of scenarios, I'd be hesitant to make it easy to override
> them
> unless there is a ground swell of NFS problems.

Mock-ups updated - you can review them at: 
http://www.ovirt.org/wiki/Features/AdvancedNfsOptions#User_Experience

[You are welcome to suggest a better phrasing for the default-advanced-nfs-options-values-change warning.
Current one is: "It is recommended to keep the default values in the fields below unchanged"]


> 
> Most of the NFS problems that I've seen are related to server-side
> permissions and cannot be resolved by the client.
> > not sure what mount options is as it is not supported for NFS.
> >
> >> Comments are welcome.
> >>
> >> ----
> >> Thanks,
> >> Einav
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