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diff --git a/sys/fs/coda/README b/sys/fs/coda/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f9bf3c3 --- /dev/null +++ b/sys/fs/coda/README @@ -0,0 +1,60 @@ + Announcing the Availability of the + Coda Distributed + Filesystem + for + BSD Unix Systems + + Coda is a distributed file system like NFS and AFS. It is +freely available, like NFS. But it functions much like AFS in being a +"stateful" file system. 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 file system 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 +file system 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. + |
