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Name Size Last modified (GMT) Description
Back Parent directory 2008-12-03 14:08:10
File README 2931 bytes 2007-07-12 20:40:37
File TODO 438 bytes 2008-02-27 22:22:34
C file cnode.h 6272 bytes 2008-11-12 22:17:55
C file coda.h 19734 bytes 2007-07-12 20:40:37
C file coda_fbsd.c 4159 bytes 2008-09-26 16:36:28
C file coda_io.h 2369 bytes 2008-02-16 20:27:07
C file coda_opstats.h 4682 bytes 2008-02-16 20:27:07
C file coda_pioctl.h 2745 bytes 2008-02-16 20:27:07
C file coda_psdev.c 17513 bytes 2008-02-17 16:25:09
C file coda_psdev.h 1783 bytes 2008-02-16 20:27:07
C file coda_subr.c 16114 bytes 2008-11-12 22:17:55
C file coda_subr.h 2110 bytes 2008-02-16 20:27:07
C file coda_venus.c 18422 bytes 2008-11-12 22:17:55
C file coda_venus.h 3978 bytes 2008-09-02 16:51:42
C file coda_vfsops.c 11693 bytes 2008-04-12 09:47:46
C file coda_vfsops.h 2118 bytes 2008-02-16 20:27:07
C file coda_vnops.c 44608 bytes 2008-10-30 23:15:27
C file coda_vnops.h 2950 bytes 2008-02-16 20:27:07

  1 $FreeBSD: src/sys/fs/coda/README,v 1.4 2007/07/12 20:40:37 rwatson Exp $
  2 
  3                 Announcing the Availability of the
  4                         Coda Distributed
  5                            Filesystem
  6                               for
  7                          BSD Unix Systems
  8 
  9         Coda is a distributed filesystem like NFS and AFS.  It is
 10 freely available, like NFS.  But it functions much like AFS in being a
 11 "stateful" filesystem.  Coda and AFS cache files on your local
 12 machine to improve performance.  But Coda goes a step further than AFS
 13 by letting you access the cached files when there is no available
 14 network, viz. disconnected laptops and network outages.  In Coda, both
 15 the client and server are outside the kernel which makes them easier
 16 to experiment with.
 17 
 18 To get more information on Coda, I would like to refer people to
 19         http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu
 20 There is a wealth of documents, papers, and theses there.  There is
 21 also a good introduction to the Coda File System in
 22         http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/ljpaper/lj.html
 23 
 24 Coda was originally developed as an academic prototype/testbed.  It is
 25 being polished and rewritten where necessary.  Coda is a work in
 26 progress and does have bugs.  It is, though, very usable.  Our
 27 interest is in making Coda available to as many people as possible and
 28 to have Coda evolve and flourish.
 29 
 30 The bulk of the Coda filesystem code supports the Coda client
 31 program, the Coda server program and the utilities needed by both.
 32 All these programs are unix programs and can run equally well on any
 33 Unix platform.  Our main development thrust is improving these
 34 programs.  There is a small part of Coda that deals with the kernel to
 35 filesystem interface.  This code is OS specific (but should not be
 36 platform specific).
 37 
 38 Coda is currently available for several OS's and platforms:
 39         Freebsd-2.2.5: i386
 40         Freebsd-2.2.6: i386
 41         Freebsd -current: i386
 42         linux 2.0: i386 & sparc
 43         linux 2.1: i386 & sparc
 44         NetBSD 1.3: i386
 45         NetBSD -current: i386
 46 The relevant sources, binaries, and docs can be found in
 47         ftp://ftp.coda.cs.cmu.edu/pub/coda/
 48 
 49 We intend to come out with new Coda releases often, not daily.  We
 50 don't want to slight any OS/platform not mentioned above.  We are just
 51 limited in our resources as to what we can support internally.  We
 52 will be happy to integrate OpenBSD support as well as other OS
 53 support.  Also, adding platform support should be relatively easy and
 54 we can discuss this.  The only difficulty is that Coda has a light weight
 55 process package.  It does some manipulations in assembler which would
 56 have to be redone for a different platform.
 57 
 58 There are several mailing lists @coda.cs.cmu.edu that discuss coda:
 59 coda-announce and linux-coda.  We are going to revise linux-coda to be
 60 OS neutral, since it is mainly Coda we want to discuss.  We appreciate
 61 comments, feedback, bug reports, bug fixes, enhancements, etc.
 62 

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