At 17:52 Uhr +0100 20.11.2018, Maxime Villard wrote: >Le 20/11/2018 Ý 16:18, Greg Troxel a ©crit : >> I used to use it, and may again. So I'd like to see it stay, partly >> because I think it's good to keep NetBS relevant in the fileystem >> research world. I am expecting to see new upstream activity. > >The problem is that CODA is not relevant in this world either... Developed >since 1987, hasn't gone very far, seems to have been dropped by everybody >except us and Linux.
Well, it was a successful research project, yielding (IIRC) one and a half dozen papers. And then, like many other CS research projects that NetBSD harbours (file systems, packet filters...) it did not move on towards production quality. Another thing changed: When CODA was conceived, the average PC network client ran MSDOS plus a lightweight client for whatever file sharing protocol the organization had chosen. Now, the client-side network code is much more interwoven with the client's OS, to the point where you choose the server to match the client. Planting an alien code base into such an environment is hard like, say, NetBSD chasing GNOME. But... for those of us who for good reasons deploy nfs-mounted user homes, CODA (or something like it, but it is one of a kind) would be a dream come true. Whenever the network goes down, people line up at my door and demand a way of disconnected operation. ISTR that somebody on the CODA mailing-list suggested a re-implementation as userland file-system, but I don't think much has happened on that front. My 0,02 EUR. Cheerio, hauke -- "It's never straight up and down" (DEVO)
