From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 16 23:43:08 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1C7816A417 for ; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 23:43:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsdlists@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com (rv-out-0910.google.com [209.85.198.188]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98C7213C467 for ; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 23:43:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsdlists@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id l15so291286rvb for ; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 16:43:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=SAGiFhiDNuc0DzFM46ig5V216bAmc7T++zosLmUIOYVEEvQo9myaUNkXYkk0PqHF7M4Fqt/zBLCBwMDD9OhiW/68cQ0UUh+zg51ze4ReaOwNvnZWqJt1IUwQ423xANwM35QILoZ+B9ehN51TB5aZ0PwVP84gfsxYzmV6bP5WChE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=EIqzK5Orc33ssEKdvvlDH/KP3ECFCgDVwo7pxX2K9OmZLMFHqgeV2NLH5gOxUGlXkOrQH8nEpgwyI3cMvs27O6MQjZkX9pSPRxbB6vyuoWSAyLLOcd6oDLLQQo/cReWmmNS7AdpCfaby6ZC8tQ6rfPR20zH3Ob4b6rtWh4WlGkY= Received: by 10.143.11.13 with SMTP id o13mr155478wfi.1187307787876; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 16:43:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.80.8 with HTTP; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 16:43:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <54db43990708161643y53d161c5m9a3d782e1e6f3d8e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:43:07 -0400 From: "Bob Johnson" To: "Laszlo Nagy" In-Reply-To: <46C4C40D.9090305@shopzeus.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <46C4905A.1020202@shopzeus.com> <54db43990708161333g5713fc0an7af4f3b4cf32623f@mail.gmail.com> <46C4C40D.9090305@shopzeus.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Share folder over internet X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 23:43:08 -0000 On 8/16/07, Laszlo Nagy wrote: > > > I often suggest Coda (ports/net/coda6_server & coda6_client) for this > > sort of situation, but it has been so many years since I've used it > > myself that I don't know what state it is in these days. I hope the > > documentation has improved. Note the client runs on the local file > > server, so you don't need to change anything on end-users' > > workstations. > > > If it really has client side caching then it can be better than NFS. > However, I just found this on their official website: > > > There were several sweeping changes in freebsd, and in the case where > the developers didn't exactly know how to solve it for Coda, they just > removed the related code. For instance, they don't support vget with a > device/inode number pair anymore, so they simply removed the complete > coda_open codepath. As a result it is impossible to open any files or > directories in /coda with the current fbsd kernel module. > Like most of their documentation, that seems to be out of date. According to their codebase, that particular issue was fixed a few months ago. But I certainly wouldn't trust Coda (on ANY platform) for production use without a bunch of testing. Which is too bad, it seems like a neat solution looking for problems to solve. I played with it for a while several years ago and I liked it enough to wish I had a problem that required it. - Bob