RE: [TCLUG:22425] anybody use coda?

["Austad, Jay" <austad@marketwatch.com>]

I was thinking of using it's replication features to distribute video files
to our servers in different parts of the country.  Doesn't look ready for
production use though, so until it is I've got some sweet rsync action goin
on.

Jay

-----Original Message-----
From: Timothy Wilson [mailto:wilson@visi.com]
Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 5:34 PM
To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org
Subject: Re: [TCLUG:22425] anybody use coda?


On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:

> > Has anyone put the coda filesystem through its paces? It sure looks
cool. I
> > especially like the disconnected mode. It would be great for laptops.
You
> > can read more at http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/
> 
> it does look interesting, but they do warn that it's not fit for
production
> use. it's more of an academic test-bed than anything else.

The impression I got was that they don't recommend it for 100s of
clients. It sounds like the folks working on it use it extensively. The idea
of caching documents on a laptop for use in disconnected mode and then
having changes automatically reintegrated when the laptop is reconnected is
really cool. And the performance can't be any worse than NFS. :-)

I think I'll give it a whirl after I burn myself some potato CDs at the
installfest.

> Intermezzo supposedly is a lot leaner (and maybe safer) than coda. dunno
> exactly what the status of it is, tho.

The intermezzo home is at http://inter-mezzo.org/ I'll check it out.

-Tim

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