From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 3 06:22:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA11045 for current-outgoing; Wed, 3 Dec 1997 06:22:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from firewall.ftf.dk (root@mail.ftf.dk [129.142.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA11032 for ; Wed, 3 Dec 1997 06:21:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk) Received: from mail.prosa.dk ([192.168.100.2]) by firewall.ftf.dk (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA18751 for ; Wed, 3 Dec 1997 16:57:50 +0100 Received: from deepo.prosa.dk (deepo.prosa.dk [192.168.100.10]) by mail.prosa.dk (8.8.5/8.8.5/prosa-1.1) with ESMTP id PAA06137 for ; Wed, 3 Dec 1997 15:44:34 +0100 (CET) Received: (from regnauld@localhost) by deepo.prosa.dk (8.8.5/8.8.5/prosa-1.1) id PAA10214; Wed, 3 Dec 1997 15:19:45 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <19971203151945.56291@deepo.prosa.dk> Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 15:19:45 +0100 From: Philippe Regnauld To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Coda Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Anyone take a look at this ? http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/ Why is Coda promising and potentially very important? Coda is a descendant of AFS 2, and has many features that are badly needed by network filesystems, and which currently are only partly implemented in commercial products: 1.is freely available under a liberal license 2.high performance through client side persistent caching 3.server replication 4.security model for authentication, encryption and access control 5.disconnected operation for laptops 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 -- -[ Philippe Regnauld / sysadmin / regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk / +55.4N +11.3E ]- "Pluto placed his bad dog at the entrance of Hades to keep the dead IN and the living OUT! The archetypical corporate firewall?" - S. Kelly Bootle, about Cerberus ["MYTHOLOGY", in Marutukku distrib] -