From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jul 28 12:25:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA22672 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 12:25:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fledge.watson.org (root@COPLAND.CODA.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.222.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA22562 for ; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 12:24:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from robert@cyrus.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (robert@fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA13517; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 15:24:00 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 15:24:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org Reply-To: Robert Watson To: Cory Kempf cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: coda for current? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 28 Jul 1998, Cory Kempf wrote: > In the last newsletter, a big announcement was made about coda. From > looking at the web pages, it seems like a really cool idea. > > Unfortunately, they only have ports for -stable > > Does anyone know what the issues are against making it work with > -current? Is anyone working on it? > > (is anyone working on porting it to other platforms, so I can finally > throw NFS in the trash? :-) ) Cory, I will be working on Coda for FreeBSD-CURRENT as of next week. However, Coda is currently only supported on FreeBSD-2.2.stuff, as when we were deciding on the FreeBSD version to develop under, 3.0 was pretty unstable. We didn't want our instabilities conflicting with the 3.0 instabilities :), leading to an even harder time debugging. Coda is rapidly stabilizing -- we hope to have a stable base version capable of real use in real environments in 6-12 months; at this point it still has bugs in a number of places, and is not still really appropriate outside of experimental environments. I pick up my new Coda notebook on Thursday at the end of a DARPA PI meeting, install -CURRENT that evening, and hopefully get working on it next week. Bob Baron is currently largely responsible for the BSD versions of Coda, and has looked at some of the issues involved in -CURRENT. Robert N Watson Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ TIS Labs at Network Associates, Inc. http://www.tis.com/ SafePort Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message