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[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.
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.
-Coda is supported well in the 2.6
[Kernel
] series and appears to be under active development. 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
with the goal of making Intermezzo
as fast as a local FileSystem
.
-As of May 2005 the website is horribly out of date, with many pages dating back to 2000 or earlier, however the [mailing list| http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/maillists/] is active and is the current authoritative source of documentation.
-
-A former developer of [Coda] started [Intermezzo] as a simpler implementation with the goal of making Intermezzo as fast as a local filesytem
.
+Coda is supported well in the 2.6 [Kernel] series and appears to be under active development. Currently it seems to be the only option for a FileSystem with support for DisconnectedOperation until [OpenAFS] supports this as well.
As of May 2005 the website is horribly out of date, with many pages dating back to 2000 or earlier, however the [mailing list| http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/maillists/] is active and is the current authoritative source of documentation.
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-!!My experiences with setting up Coda.
+
+
!! My experiences with setting up Coda
Be wary of the documentation on the coda site, most of it is out of date enough to be horribly misleading. In mozilla use "View > Page Info" to check the modification date on any documentation you are interested in using, if it's older than a year or so, pretend it was 404 and completely ignore it!
I started with sarge machines running 2.6. Apparently 2.4 requires patching your kernel. The coda version in the 2.6 kernel tree is up to date, and, as an added bonus is usually compiled as a module by most kernels shipped by vendors.
