Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 20:30:26 -0500 (EST) From: "matthew c. mead" <mmead@Glock.COM> To: DARREND@novell.com (Darren Davis) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, mmead@Glock.COM Subject: Re: homedir mirroring nightly, with an nfs overlay? - Reply Message-ID: <199603120130.UAA00432@neon.Glock.COM> In-Reply-To: <s1447580.073@fromGW> from "Darren Davis" at Mar 11, 96 06:56:07 pm
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Darren Davis writes: > It seems to me all you need to do is export a filesystem from Glock. Automount > it from Neon, and have either a cron job or you copy the contents of Neon > back to Glock. If you are trying to maintain a consistant name space(having > pathnames identical for both machines), then you will have to do something > a little more creative such as mount it on a temporary directory so that > you can copy to the correct path. > NFS is not capable of any explicit disconnect file semantics. I only know > of a few filesystems capable of such feats with Coda (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/coda/Web/coda.html) > being the premier research filesystem. From the ftp site, it appears that netbsd has support for CODA now. Any FreeBSD support in the works? -matt -- Matthew C. Mead mmead@Glock.COM http://www.Glock.COM/~mmead/
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