Coda File System: "What is Coda?
Coda is an advanced networked filesystem. It has been developed at CMU since 1987 by the systems group of M. Satyanarayanan. in the SCS department.
Why is Coda promising and potentially very important?
Coda is a distributed filesystem with its origin in AFS2. It has many features that are very desirable for network filesystems. Currently, Coda has several features not found elsewhere.
disconnected operation for mobile computing
is freely available under a liberal license
high performance through client side persistent caching
server replication
security model for authentication, encryption and access control
continued operation during partial network failures in server network
network bandwith adaptation
good scalability
well defined semantics of sharing, even in the presence of network failures "
- posted by Gp @ 6:40 PM