On Thu, May 05, 2016 at 01:13:53PM +0200, u-m...@aetey.se wrote: > On Thu, May 05, 2016 at 12:22:09AM -0400, Jan Harkes wrote: > > Now when there is no optimistic replication: > ... > > This looks like the way AFS took. Surely this does bring certain > advantages but buys them by losing other ones. Optimistic replication > was one of the reasons we chose Coda before OpenAFS. This was not the > only reason but an important one.
You are being quite unfair to Coda, it brings a whole lot more than just optimistic replication. We still have, - Disconnected operation with log optimizations. - Whole file caching and hoarding! - Atomic (server) operations without requiring additional file locking. - Simpler more maintainable in-kernel module that is actually part of Linux and various other OS kernels. - 99% of the complexity is in a userspace binary that is using a pretty much identical codebase across all supported platforms. Jan
