From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 11 17:30:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA11403 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 17:30:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from neon.Glock.COM (root@neon.glock.com [198.82.228.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA11389 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 17:30:40 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mmead@localhost) by neon.Glock.COM (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA00432; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 20:30:26 -0500 (EST) From: "matthew c. mead" Message-Id: <199603120130.UAA00432@neon.Glock.COM> Subject: Re: homedir mirroring nightly, with an nfs overlay? - Reply To: DARREND@novell.com (Darren Davis) Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 20:30:26 -0500 (EST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, mmead@Glock.COM In-Reply-To: from "Darren Davis" at Mar 11, 96 06:56:07 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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/