Coda File System

Re: High availability with Coda

From: LEE, Yui-wah <clement+_at_cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 09:18:22 +0800 (CST)
Iniaki Fernandez Villanueva  <siae0080_at_gc.ehu.es> wrote:
> 
> Now, our idea is to create a redundant linux server to start with 2 nodes
> that offers an important network service like file system. These two nodes
> will have equal data and with Coda we achieve the redundant server.
> 
> We also need to offer this service to linux clients and WinXX clients, but
> actually coda client supports only linux.  Because of this we consider these
> 2 nodes like coda clients and mounting all files under its own /Coda
> directory. Afterwards we exports these two directories with Samba and we
> obtein a simple file system server with any client (Linux,Win9x,WinNT,..).

Coda already supports Win9x (alpha releases), it also supports FreeBSD
as well as NetBSD.  So you probably do not need to re-export Coda via
Samba.

-- Clement

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Yui-wah LEE (Clement)                              Tel: (852)-26098412
Department of Computer Science and Engineering,    Fax: (852)-26035024 
The Chinese University of Hong Kong     Email: clement_at_cse.cuhk.edu.hk
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Received on 1999-06-22 21:19:16