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| Newer page: | version 10 | Last edited on Saturday, June 18, 2005 7:12:35 pm | by PerryLorier | Revert |
| Older page: | version 8 | Last edited on Saturday, June 18, 2005 4:03:31 pm | by DanielLawson | Revert |
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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As of May 2005 the website is horribly out of date, with many pages dating back to 2000 or earlier, however the [mailing list| http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/maillists/] is active and is the current authoritative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.
-A former developer of [Coda] started [Intermezzo] as a simpler implementation.
+A former developer of [Coda] started [Intermezzo] as a simpler implementation with the goal of making Intermezzo as fast as a local filesytem
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!!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Be wary of the documentation on the coda site, most of it is out of date enough to be horribly misleading.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.
-One of the best sources of up to date information other than the mailing list appears to be [http://telemann.coda.cs.cmu.edu/news.html].
+One of the best sources of up to date information other than the mailing list appears to be [http://telemann.coda.cs.cmu.edu/news.html], and the mirrors pages [http://www
.coda.cs.cmu.edu/mirrors.html]
I used the debian repositories to retrieve coda. Once again, be careful that you're not retrieving something that's horribly out of date. The repositories are mentioned in the above news list.
!! The Server
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vice-setup should start the server, and everything should be running on the server.
!! The Client
The client requires a kernel module to run. This kernel module is very simple, mostly just forwarding requests for data to userspace, and therefore is very small and reliable. The main "brains" are in a userspace process.
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+If you don't have the module compiled, no matter, just go add the module to your config, build it and install it, and load it. You shouldn't even need to reboot.
I installed it as:
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apt-get install coda-client
