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Newer page:	version 2	Last edited on Tuesday, July 13, 2004 2:49:57 am	by BrianJohnson	Revert
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* no longer copies the entire file when it's opened for writing, which is slow for large files - though [Coda] still has to in order to support disconnected operation

Some of its authors noticed that [AFS] worked quite well for a while when you unplugged the network, due to caching, but has issues when writes occur. A research project called [Coda] was launched to allow fully disconnected operation: a laptop with a WLAN connection wandering in and out of range will seamlessly synchronize all files (and notify the user of conflicts). The project was quite a success.

-Then its team decided that they could do better, so they sat down and started working on Intermezzo. This project is based on the same principles as Coda, along with the idea that it should be as fast as using a local filesystem, and should do everything over well established protocols (such as [HTTP]). I doesn't seem to be anywhere near production quality yet, though. Coda is unmaintained and pretty much unused nowadays.

+Then its team decided that they could do better, so they sat down and started working on [ Intermezzo] . This project is based on the same principles as [ Coda] , along with the idea that it should be as fast as using a local filesystem, and should do everything over well established protocols (such as [HTTP]). I doesn't seem to be anywhere near production quality yet, though. Coda is unmaintained and pretty much unused nowadays.

[AFS] however continues to thrive, offering gigantic scaling capacities.