[Dev] coda filesystems

Chris Hedemark dev@trilug.org
Wed, 20 Feb 2002 07:23:04 -0500


You might get some more responses on the main trilug@list since this is more 
of a sysadmin question than a dev question.

On Wednesday 20 February 2002 02:19 am, you wrote:
>   Do any of you have any experience using coda filesystems?  More
> specifically, can the coda filesystem be used to 'mount' single
> files in an otherwise non-coda directory?
>
> For those of you who do not know what coda is, go visit
>   http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/
>
> quick buzzword intro...
>    1.  disconnected operation for mobile computing
>    2. is freely available under a liberal license
>    3. high performance through client side persistent caching
>    4. server replication
>    5. security model for authentication, encryption and access control
>    6. continued operation during partial network failures in server network
>    7. network bandwith adaptation
>    8. good scalability
>    9. well defined semantics of sharing, even in the presence of network
> failures
>
> thanks.
>   brent