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diff --git a/sys/coda/README b/sys/coda/README deleted file mode 100644 index 19de799..0000000 --- a/sys/coda/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,62 +0,0 @@ -$FreeBSD$ - - Announcing the Availability of the - Coda Distributed - Filesystem - for - BSD Unix Systems - - Coda is a distributed filesystem like NFS and AFS. It is -freely available, like NFS. But it functions much like AFS in being a -"stateful" filesystem. Coda and AFS cache files on your local -machine to improve performance. But Coda goes a step further than AFS -by letting you access the cached files when there is no available -network, viz. disconnected laptops and network outages. In Coda, both -the client and server are outside the kernel which makes them easier -to experiment with. - -To get more information on Coda, I would like to refer people to - http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu -There is a wealth of documents, papers, and theses there. There is -also a good introduction to the Coda File System in - http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/ljpaper/lj.html - -Coda was originally developed as an academic prototype/testbed. It is -being polished and rewritten where necessary. Coda is a work in -progress and does have bugs. It is, though, very usable. Our -interest is in making Coda available to as many people as possible and -to have Coda evolve and flourish. - -The bulk of the Coda filesystem code supports the Coda client -program, the Coda server program and the utilities needed by both. -All these programs are unix programs and can run equally well on any -Unix platform. Our main development thrust is improving these -programs. There is a small part of Coda that deals with the kernel to -filesystem interface. This code is OS specific (but should not be -platform specific). - -Coda is currently available for several OS's and platforms: - Freebsd-2.2.5: i386 - Freebsd-2.2.6: i386 - Freebsd -current: i386 - linux 2.0: i386 & sparc - linux 2.1: i386 & sparc - NetBSD 1.3: i386 - NetBSD -current: i386 -The relevant sources, binaries, and docs can be found in - ftp://ftp.coda.cs.cmu.edu/pub/coda/ - -We intend to come out with new Coda releases often, not daily. We -don't want to slight any OS/platform not mentioned above. We are just -limited in our resources as to what we can support internally. We -will be happy to integrate OpenBSD support as well as other OS -support. Also, adding platform support should be relatively easy and -we can discuss this. The only difficulty is that Coda has a light weight -process package. It does some manipulations in assembler which would -have to be redone for a different platform. - -There are several mailing lists @coda.cs.cmu.edu that discuss coda: -coda-announce and linux-coda. We are going to revise linux-coda to be -OS neutral, since it is mainly Coda we want to discuss. We appreciate -comments, feedback, bug reports, bug fixes, enhancements, etc. - |
