distributed filesystems

[Francisco Reyes]

Greg Troxel writes:

> Coda (http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/) works well on NetBSD-current, in
> which I just fixed the kernel module to conform to updated/simplified
..
> There's also arla (afs working client, and server that I'm not sure of
> the status).

>From a performance perspective would you recommend Coda or Arla?
Are distributed filesystems fast enough to handle something like a mailstore 
for a busy Imap/pop3 server?