From owner-freebsd-fs Tue Feb 25 04:55:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA20344 for fs-outgoing; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 04:55:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from nyx.pr.mcs.net (nyx.pr.mcs.net [204.95.55.81]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA20335 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 04:55:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from nyx.pr.mcs.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nyx.pr.mcs.net (8.8.5/8.8.4) with ESMTP id GAA03348 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 06:55:03 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199702251255.GAA03348@nyx.pr.mcs.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0beta 12/23/96 To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Coda File system... Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 06:55:03 -0600 From: Chris Csanady Sender: owner-fs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk For those who are interested, I came across a rather interesting project at CMU. The Coda file system is a file system based on AFS, but extended to provide increased availability even when completely disconnected--suitable for mobil users as well. I've not had a chance to look at the copyright, or source, but I think the terms would be ok. The page is at: http://www-cgi.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/coda/Web/coda.html If the code is fairly mature, perhaps its worth a look. If not, I think its essentially AFS, plus more. Possibly we could reverse engineer it and end up with a standard AFS. Either way, I would love to see a real remote filesysem for FreeBSD. :) Although I've looked, I've never been able to find the original AFS source from before it went commercial. :( If anyone has this, I'd love to get a copy... --Chris Csanady