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To: Martin Heller <mheller@student.uni-kl.de>
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Subject: Re: Has anyone taken a look at the coda file system ? 
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Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 22:34:29 -0400
From: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
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>Has anyone looked at the coda file system (CFS) from CMU ?
>The coda file system is the descendent of the Andrew file system (AFS), 
>seems to be compatible with AFS, a makefile for an  NetBSD-i386 client seems
>to exist and the source code is ftp-able from their ftp for anyone  
>(ftp.cs.cmu.edu) .

I looked at coda not too long ago.  It has it's advantages (one big one
being that it was free), but the disadvantages were:

- Wasn't compatible with AFS at all (clients could coexist on the same box,
  but the two couldn't talk to each other).

- Documentation was rather sparse

- Didn't use Kerberos for authentication

- Didn't do some of the cooler things that AFS can do (like moving volumes
  on the fly, etc).

It's definately worth looking at it, but since you need a server as well
as a client to test it out, I think you have a lot of work ahead of you :-)

--Ken