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| Newer page: | version 5 | Last edited on Tuesday, July 13, 2004 12:19:58 pm | by AristotlePagaltzis | Revert |
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-Coda,
is an Advanced NetworkFileSystem developed by the same people that developed
[AFS], but with the added goal of Disconnected Operation
. The idea of accessing files on the network, and having your computer cache them, then disconnecting from the network, editing the files, then reconnecting later and resyncing all those files back into
the "filesystem"
.
+[
Coda | http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/]
is an Advanced NetworkFileSystem developed as a research project
by the team which wrote
[AFS]. [Coda] extends
the FileSystem for DisconnectedOperation
.
-One
of the
developers of [Coda] started
[Intermezzo
]
+Some
of [AFS]'
developers noticed that caching lets it work quite well for a while in the face
of loss of the connection except for issues when writes occur.
[Coda] was to allow for scenarios like allowing a laptop with a
[WLAN
] connection wandering in and out of range to seamlessly synchronize all files (and notify the user of conflicts). The project was quite a success.
-Disconnected operation has an annoying side effect
. To allow for servers
to fall over when editing a file
, the entire file is shipped to your client before you edit
it. This
is ok for source code and so on, but when you are looking at large packet logs, you will feel
the burn
.
+Coda is supported in [Kernel] 2
.6.7 but no longer in active development. It seems
to still be maintained
, however, as
it is not completely dead --
the last release as of July 2004 was v6..6 in April. Currently it seems to be the only option for a FileSystem with support for DisconnectedOperation until [OpenAFS] supports this as well.
+
+A former developer of [Coda] started [Intermezzo] as a simpler implementation
.
