[8421] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Re: afs/dfs/coda
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH)
Mon Jan 22 21:08:41 2001
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 20:38:30 -0500
From: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu>
To: iddwb <David.Bear@asu.edu>, info-afs@transarc.com
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On Tuesday, January 23, 2001 00:12:31 +0000, iddwb <David.Bear@asu.edu>
wrote:
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| Afs is a fine idea -- but it really stinks over low bandwidth high latency
| networks. ARe there any good comparisons between afs/dfs and coda? Is
| coda ready for prime time? Are there any coda to afs translator?
+--->8
Coda is not ready for prime time and will not be ready any time soon; the
researchers working on it aren't interested in that. Possibly once they
are done tinkering with it, someone will adopt it and make it a viable
product, but don't hold your breath.
--
brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net
system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu
electrical and computer engineering KF8NH
carnegie mellon university ["better check the oblivious first" -ke6sls]
