Here is something that I was surprised to discover the other day : you can nest class definitions inside otherthings. In a way this is just what I should have expected given that class is an executable statement in Python, just like def is ( cf ), but I still found it surprising to see itactually happen.

At least in the simple case, the only thing that nesting a class insideanother class does is make the first class's name harder to get to; theinner class has no special

As I sort of mentioned in an aside in the last entry , pretty much any sort of fileserverinfrastructure does a number of other things besides just servingfiles. In turn this means that hooking a machine into your fileserverenvironment generally involves a lot more than just some mount commands.

For the purposes of this entry, let's ignore all of the services thatonly care about the fileservers themselves; backup, monitoring, and soon. We'll only look at the services that a client has to be tied